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UPCOMING EVENTS

• Amity Annual Fashion Show "Samanvay 2009": Graduation Show of Fashion Design Department, Amity University, Lucknow, to be held on 19th March 2009
• Fashion Show with the theme AUDH at Genesis Club, Lucknow, to be held on 4th April 2009

A TRIBUTE TO GIANNI VERSACE

"Ladies and Gentleman, this collection is inspired by Gianni Versace," announced emcee Hrishikesh at the show. This was way back on 16ht July 1997, the day I was launching my first collection.

As, the collection was inspired by Versace, the dresses had a bare dare attitude and colour of Miami.

The show was on in a full swing and some models were on the ramp. I was in the green room gettting other models ready for the next scene.and my friend walked in with the shoking news. "Gianni Versace was shot dead a few hours ago," he said.

I couldn't beleive my ears.

The show was still on. The models was walking the ramp displaying the dresses. For others it was just another creation but for me, it was the journey down the lane, as each dress displayed on the ramp reminded me of Versace's collection that had inspired me.

For instance my Bare dare Gown Collectionwas inspired by his silk crepe ankle length dress, which was cut into pelmet length and seemingly held together by acouple of stitches.

The other dress was inspired by his silk evening dress, which had that slept-in-all-night, just-got-out-of-bed look.

Vesace's designs always had a great impact on me. The former master of kitsch for the rich had turned himself into Edward scissorhands, shredding and slashing his own most lavish creations.

I remember seeing the clippings of one of his shows, when I was at the design institute. The collection of this master of sex and excess was dangeriously vampish. The show opened with Emma Belfour, all doe eyed and wispy blond hair, in a steel grey velvet trouser suit covered in a spidery web of black thread skillfully slashed with designer scissors.

But one dress that really inspired me for my first collection was his eveningwear, which had a daring lingerie feel. I used black lace and velvet for the dress that was held in place by impossibly thin stripes of fabric.

And the "show-stopper" dress of my first clooection was a pure Versace - the black velvet, stripped of its genteel image, bisected and overlaidwith lace, and cut to reveal more of human form than it concealed.

When the show ended I was called on stage to say a few words, the only thing I could speak was, "This shw is symbolic to Gianni Versace's life because it started with the note that it was inspired by the living legend of fashion and now it ends as at tribute to him".