Preview: Hyderabad-based Gaurang Shah’s showcase for Lakme Fashion Week is a burst of ‘Gulal’
The HinduA burst of pink hues contrasts the pale white walls on the first floor of textile designer Gaurang Shah’s flagship store in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. At LFW, Gaurang will showcase 30 lehengas and 10 saris and the presentation will include a live music performance by Germany-based medical engineer and singer Hardik Chauhan, who is known to perform Gujarati folk numbers with a choir. The use of jamdani, jacquard and dobby weaving techniques, bandhani and chikankari on charkha khadi, fine count cotton, matka silk, Kanchi silks and organza are among Gulal’s highlights and some of the outfits have involved over two years of work by weavers and craftspeople. “The show will begin with a model wearing an ivory white lehenga and then move to pale and deeper pinks since people begin Holi celebrations in white,” says Gaurang.