Friday 24 October 2008

Sarees are the new thing

Sarees seem to be popular with fashion celebrities lately. Liz Hurley was wearing a rich-pink Indian dress, in Mumbai, a couple of days ago.

Not quite as striking as Victoria Beckham, but the gown, lined with gold and subtly embroidered, still captured some attention.

The two fashion-hungry celebrities are not the only one to be taken by Indian dress-making skills. Sarees are traditionally made of light silk and richly died and decorated.

That's why designers love them.

Manish Arora took the Indian embellishing techniques to an extreme during Paris fashion week last month, with fascinating theatrical results. (Although sometimes a little nightmarish if you don't like clowns...)

We know have to wait and see other ways in which the sari can be reinterpreted.

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