MEN IN SKIRTS (and writer Karmik Varma also observed that some of the bare-chested male models had bigger breasts than the female models) were probably the highlight of the JJ Valaya fashion showing at the HDIL Couture India Week on the evening of 17th September. In fact, they were not really skirts, but traditional heavily embroidered ghagras and lehengas, that Valaya had his men wearing on the ramp.
Of course, fashion followers over the past decade would know that the idea of men in skirts was pioneered by the Efant Terrible of Parisian Haute Couture, Jean Paul Gaultier, back in the late 80's. And closer home, every designer from Arjun Khanna to Rohit Bal have done the same trick many seasons ago.
The rest of the Valaya show was as uninspiring, done-to-death and predictable - right from his sarees to his lehengas to his gowns to his mini fur shrugs over saree cholis.
Our Verdict....??? Same old! Same old!
(PIX: RANJIT RODRICKS)
