Generation is set to showcase a new prêt-à–porter collection, ‘A Dot That Went For A Walk’ at Fashion Pakistan Week in April 2016.
Indeed this collection represents Generation’s Director Khadija Rahman’s vision for 2016.This is her first collection for the ramp. The design house will be showcasing on the 9th of April and will be the second act of the first half of the show.
Inspired from artist extraordinaire Paul Klee’s quote ‘A line is a dot that went for a walk’, the collection is a celebration of movement and form that is the base characteristic of fabric itself. It explores the way fabric dances along the human form; how it clings, drapes and falls. The collection comprises of women’s wear exclusively, based primarily in cottons namely voiles, nets, dobbies, jacquards with a bit of tencel linen accented with gold tissue and velvet. Expect cuts that deconstruct mainstream and traditional silhouettes, where everything from the kurta, kaftan, jama, shalwar and even the dupatta find new forms. The collections’ embellishments engage appliqués, gota work and a reinterpretation of fringing.
“This collection is inspired by the dupatta which represents really the base of sub continental clothing like the kurta, the shalwar and the kaftan which are all cut from panels of the dupatta thus utilising it in completion. The dupatta goes for a walk in the city where it meets the gulaab. This collection documents the journey of these two characters.” said Khadija Rahman.
Khadija Rahman currently holds the reins to design direction at Generation. Interestingly for a long time she felt that she wasn’t the right fit for the job, being a bit of a dreamer she always felt a little out of place with the fashion scene, believing that she just could not relate. All that however changed once she went to London to pursue a degree in fashion at London College of Fashion.
What she found particularly refreshing about fashion in London was how it rose from the streets, with designers finding inspiration from cult movements and translating it for the luxury market, rather than vice versa as it happens in the rest of the world. With Generation being the brand for the everyday Pakistani woman she felt this ideology to be apt, hence she transcended on a fashion journey of taking risks and setting trends.
‘A dot that went for a walk’ traces her strong affection for the drape and movement of fabric her interest in architecture and form. In many ways she may identify herself as ‘the dot’ with her love for the outdoors and her journey to rediscover the intrinsic quality of fabric. The collection in many ways signifies herself finally opening up to the world.
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