Oct 04 2015.
views 1776Colombo Fashion Week Resort 2016 : Day 3
The final day of Colombo Fashion Week Resort 2016 drew to a close this evening, with local and international designers taking the spotlight whist showcasing their collections.
Ramona Oshini
Ramona Oshini Jayawardena is the designer of Ramona Oshini, a Sri Lankan fashion designer. She graduated from London College of Fashion and University College of Creative Arts, Kent. Her brand was launched in Colombo Fashion Week 2010 and showcased at CFW for eight consecutive seasons.
The brand focuses on simple elegance that creates confidence and great attitude. Ramona aims to dress her clientele in beautiful, creative clothing in an array of colours and silhouettes that complement. Ramona works very closely with local artisans using techniques such as batik, crotchet, hand lace and embroidery to uplift and improve local crafts, and modernize the way these craft are used in her creations.
The Resort 2016 Collection, ‘Island Paradise’, revolves around Sri Lanka and the nlyagala flower also known as Glory Lily, which is beautiful to look at but deadly to touch. The colours of this flower range from vibrant reds to oranges and yellows, which have been incorporated into the collection using batik, shibori and dip dye. The collection will use simple, flowy silhouettes and soft voiles, pure silks, cottons and pure silk chiffons that give a nice flow to the designs.
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HARARE
Harare is a New York-based womenswear label, founded in 2013 by Caroline Fuss. Caroline is a graduate of Sydney’s prestigious East Sydney Tech fashion programme. Her graduation collection received wide acclaim and was hand-selected to show at Australian Fashion Week in 2010. Caroline moved to New York to continue her education at Proenza Schouler and later started Harare. She is currently based in New York City.
Named after the birthplace of both her mother and grandmother, Harare’s dynamic cultural heritage is woven into the brand just as much as the fabrics themselves. The brand is devoted to unearthing rich artisan cultures from around the globe, and celebrating them through exquisite high-end women’s fashion. The future of Harare is to establish and nurture relationships with master artisans across the far reaching corners of the world. To explore the origins of cloth in its original and most basic makeup, and to launch this into a spectacular, modern real of luxury design.
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Conscience
Conscience, one of Sri Lanka’s first ethical brands, believes in the supply chain of happiness, consciously touching every aspect of the supply chain to do the best it can to make a difference. It is about being conscious of our conscience. The Conscience Resort 2016 Collection is a feminine expression of the label’s trademark masculine appeal. It is created with the same sensitivity and philosophy of striking menswear collections, seen through the eyes of a woman. The collection uses subtle hues to create a resort feel. White muslin, white and blue nautical stripes and khaki trousers feature predominantly in the collection.
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KOCA by RN
KOCA is a uniquely Sri Lankan brand that specializes in using modern applications and techniques into their design.The duo sisters behind KOCA – Rusla Namiq and Najila Sharhan – both graduates in fashion design worked independently and collaboratively for 12 years. With experience in fashion design and marketing in Paris and Hong Kong, coupled with meticulous attention to design detail, the sisters collaborated in 2009 to create their own label. The brand launched as KOCA by RN following their showing at Colombo Fashion Week in 2012. They currently retail capsule collections in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Dubai and Australia.
Their Resort 2015/2016 Collection is inspired by child art-like floral prints and rubber paint kids’ animations; a fantasy story recreated with characters looking for a new world down the maze like rabbit hole. Maze-like prints and appliqués along with child art floral merged into stylish resort silhouettes are brought to life, making every vacationing fashionista feel young, vibrant and carefree!
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INDI
INDI is a Sri Lankan fashion brand for elegant and discerning ladies by Indeevari Yapa Abeywardena. It focuses on sophistication and rareness, from red carpet to cocktail events, to awards night to resortwear. INDI’s designs blend with current trends and to fit client’s individuality and refined taste.
Indeevari is the poster child for Sri Lanka’s flourishing urban-edged age. She is also a member of the esteemed Unilever Beauty Council and The Fashion Design Council of Sri Lanka projects. Indeevari is also the official partner in Women’s Wear for the America's Next Top Model judge and Iconic Fashion Photographer Nigel Barker project in Sri Lanka.
This season’s collection presented by Vaseline, known as Coral Escape, is to create an imaginary concept of underwater world shapes andcolours, and reinterprets them in original designs using local batik craft as its main printing technique. It will have bold prints, over-layered textures and shapes as well as intricate thread embroidery.
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G by Gihan Ediriweera
Gihan Ediriweera is a designer who first showcased at Colombo Fashion Week in 2012 and has since shown collections across India and Europe, including Tiffany’s Fashion Week Paris 2015. He studied fashion design at the Lanka Institute of Fashion Technology. He launched his label, G by Gihan Ediriweera, in 2009.
His Resort 2016 Collection is inspired by the grapes and wines of the Mediterranean. Wine flows, in elegant purples, the sultry clarets and burgundys, the fresh sparkle of white wine, the blushing pinks of Vino Rosa, to give a concoction of heady summer wines. Summer, a season of strawberries, cherries and sunshine with angel's kisses,now comes to you in a beautiful tie and dye collection of glorious colours.
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Ari’el
Sonali Dharmawardena decided to take a 'sabbatical' from staging on Colombo Fashion Week. Having worked with the apparel sector, she couldn’t decline the request of Radhika Mendis to pool each of their resources and present, Ari’el, a collection for the lacuna in the local market for youthful ages. Strongly believing in team work, the outcome of working together and achieving more; Sonali has enjoyed working on this collection with her partner, Radhika.
The Resort 2016 Collection gives life to the 'denim effect'. Inspired by the 60s hippie subculture which became a hit in the 70s and 80s, this capsule collection is made playfully kitsch with value additions; batik, tie dye and various other wash techniques. ‘Wearing art’ is the core of Ari'el and this season’s assembly offers a burst of retro dots forming in to different geometric shapes which settle in to soft cottony clouds. The essence of this collection signifies soft diffused surfaces born out of heavy-duty fabrics.
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U by Upeksha Hager
Upeksha Hager is a familiar name at Colombo Fashion Week. Her Resort 2016 Collection is 'A Walk from Sunny Summer Places to a Misty Forest’. It features beautifully tailored bohemian linens and cottons that are whimsical and playful, and ultra-feminine made-to-measure pieces, in sumptuous understated elegance. Reflecting the theme, its color palate goes from gorgeous earthy tones that evoke the sun to calming cool tones that evoke a pristine forest with clear blue water.
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smallshop
smallshop is a collaborative undertaking between Anshu Arora Sen and and Jason Cheriyan. The smallshop aesthetic can be best summed up as vibrant, painterly whimsical and luxuriously languid.The 'luxury' here stems from the various unique hand processes the product goes through and the use of natural fabrics, which are finally translated into clothes that are soft, draped and artistic.
Jason studied Govt. College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai and the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi in India, specialising in fashion from 1988 to 1990. He was the winner of the Damania Award for Best Young Designer. He has participated in the Global Local, an exhibition of contemporary Indian and British design, displayed at the India Habitat Centre, India, the V&A, United Kingdom. He is an artist-in-residence at the ISGM Boston.
Anshu studied literature at St Stephens, New Delhi, India before studying fashion at NIFT Delhi. She started her label smallshop in Delhi towards the end of 1998. Anshu designed costumes for various theatre and film productions. In the craft sector she has worked with various NGOs. She is a member of the guest faculty at The Shrishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore.
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Photographs by Nisal Baduge
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catherine rawson says:
Oct 07, 2015 at 12:00 amIs there a piece for day 2?