Live fast, die young, bad girls do it well, a perfect rave track to start this Manish Arora Fashion show in Paris. Manish Arora showcased his Spring Summer 2014 collection, which started with a bang of colours in an unending tidal wave of a sport-inspired collection – so typical Manish Arora.

 

The theme of the collection: Josephine Baker at a rave-party which took the audience in an era of the flapper movement. The collection, as obvious, did not lack flamboyance and elaborate detailing given to each garment with a psychedelic wave flowing through the audience, the collection spoke volumes about the designer’s theme.

A collection, inspired by Art Deco with beadwork, flapper – esque tassels, lotus petals and monochrome checkered skirts, with digitally printed mini-dresses flowing on the ramp in full glory.

 

The collection outgave like a theatre performance in itself with so much exuberance involved on the stage only with the designer’s garments and nothing else, the designer made his collection keeping in mind his consumer base, who? of course - the party hoppers from all over the world. The collection looks sensitive because of the flowy fabrics used, giving it a Parisian feel.

                              

The collection had a very juicy colour pallete – banana yellow, sherbret pink, fuchsia and mint green – heroes of the party-goers. A graphic black and white, Victor Vasarely inspired motif, dominated the skirts; the bright strobe-light colours dominated the tops of the collection, representing the bars and pubs of the City of Light – Paris. Sequin embroidery was another highlight in the collection with airplane and lipstick motifs, Art Deco-inspired perfume bottles, staircases, and ballrooms kept the art – esque alive in the collection and profusely brought out the vibrant, psychedelic prints on waterproof parkas.

Reflector like fabric flashes through the collection, highlighting the strobe-lights and ultraviolent lights used in the night on textured sequin sweatshirts, embroidered borders and sporty fluorescent shoelaces, complete with the Manish Arora pink sole patent.

 

The collection also included armfuls of fluorescent bead bangles paired with club kid backpacks that took us back into the ‘Alice-in-Acidland’ days. The headgears, gave a royal, maharaja feel, something with an Indian influence, big chunky-funky silver and gold neckpieces which added extra life to the whole garment.

 

 

The make-up used in show also created party-mood, eyes being highlighted with bright colours, pink cheek blush and white hair so that the hair don’t steal the thunder of the garments.

 

The only drawback in the show was that the audience wasn’t seated well enough to be comfortable to enjoy the show to the fullest. The choreography of the show wasn’t up to the mark as well; it could have had more life to it.

Overall, the show was a success for all the party-hoppers of Paris, a sense of nostalgia had set in for the women who related to the freedom dominated era of the 1920’s.