If you had enough of laughter challenge on TV then you must witness one of the Lakme Fashion Week shows held at NCPA, Mumbai...and see some of the models n the choreography in particular.
You might laugh a bit at the cost of designers suffering.
You would see a set of average models walking down the ramp on blaring music n even worse choreography (if there is any)…you would understand what I mean when before you enter the show arena you feel one of the privileged ones as simply everyone wants to be there, n then after a while you don't feel like that anymore. Honestly,you don't even laugh but somehow feel disgusted cos you spent 2 hrs negotiating through Mumbai road traffic to watch a 25 min show( not to forget the travel time back)...and you expect international standards for everything.
The whole idea of a fashion show is to have a good set of models complementing the clothes…otherwise a designer might as well put up an exhibition using hangers to display the clothes on. Whatever the so-called-range of models, barring 30% of them, in any of the shows I happened to see at LFW, the rest should have never have been there and the choreographers should never been hired cos they seem to have forgotten all about timing n beats. There are no pauses or even real poses or a certain body-language essential to make a good show. Even college students into choreography have better sense of timing. Whatever happened to the good old choreography when there were people like Shanti Chopra, Sharmila Rai Choudhry, Suresh Thomas, Hemant—who understood the value of timing n graceful walk…
Its called 'catwalk' because it all comes from the way a Cat walks-you get hypnotised by that feline grace! Unfortunately,the high level of commercialisation of fashion week leading to strong negotiations has led to many a top models opting out of it.
Had we not been ‘respectable invitees’ probably me, and couple of other very senior journalist friends would have somehow tripped couple of them!
Its gross injustice to designers who spend months in creating those designs n ultimately mediocre choreography n models should fail to give correct projection.
And lets not at all talk about the show-stoppers…one of shows I witnessed (talented designer Agnitmitra Paul from Calcutta)…had Minisha Lamba who came n went without anyone noticing her-they all looked above her head, she was so short-talk about stopping a show! She is undoubtedly one of the cutest people but ramp is definitely not the place for her and it took me half an hour to convince my journalist friend from Delhi that she is a well known film actress and when you are sitting in front of camera as a known face,your height doesn’t matter! It’s the news which ultimately matters boss!
Anyway…(yawn)… am really looking forward to see Madhur Bhandarkar’s film ‘Fashion’…
In photograph-Mugdha Godse-as usual one of the best models on ramp
She is just about 18. And finished her first film with a top director. Sweet n sexy n ready to rule!
