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Narendra Kumar opens the Lakme Fashion Week with a dramatic avant garde men's line.



There was humour; there was subtle colour and loads of striking detailing when Narendra Kumar opened the Lakme Fashion Week with his Spring/Summer 2007 men's wear line.

Titled The Artist Inside, Narendra had drawn his inspirations from abstract art of Jackson Pollack the cubist movement and through the works of George Braque so the mainstay of the collection was detailing which appeared on trousers, shirts, and jackets.



Starting with a batik shirt and linen trousers his shirts were replete with flapped patch pockets, some embroidery, and tiny floral prints. The jackets with one or two buttons were either vent less or with two vents once again with some quirky detailing like a single printed label, triangular contrast bands, puffed pockets.

But it was with the trousers that Narendra allowed his imagination to run riot. Lots of zippers appeared all over, while the legs tapered down to almost skin tight silhouettes and the Capri and cycle shorts had pleating, large flap puffed patched pockets, or contrast piped slit ones.




The silhouette always remained close to the body with an occasional burst of volume and the look was more sporty than formal. Even the two piece suits were in dual colours worn at times sans footwear. Colours ranged from natural to apple green olive, rust, and gold.




There was some tongue-in-cheek humour when a white linen kurta came with a misplaced printed two piece colour on the body or the swinging horizontal striped shrug. His finale white linen suit with hand painted strokes on Bollywood hunk, John Abraham was a stylish yet unconventional formal option.

Narendra Kumar's men's wear gives a new ultra modern millennium look to clothes which the Indian man will enjoy wearing during the coming season and also be of great interest to the western buyers.