Despite a lukewarm overall showing, Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WLIFW) Spring/Summer 2008 did produce some winners. Trends were sketchy: a whole lot of teeny shorts and hassle-free shifts, a predictably pure palette of whites sometimes interspersed with pops of colours and elegantly strewn patches of sparkling embroideries on airy fabrics. While we sorely missed favourites like Manish Arora, Cue, Anamika Khanna, Ashish Soni and Shantanu Goenka, the very buyable collections we have reviewed for you in the following pages did lift our spirits. Come February, one can snap up Shantanu-Nikhil’s slithering buttercup draped dress, Tarun Tahiliani’s jersey salwar pants, Ranna Gill’s coffee bean print bikini, Namrata Joshipura’s white sports jacket, Monisha Jaising’s rose embroidered mini, Falguni and Shane’s dove grey embroidered gown, Ravage’s 3D textured cut shirt, Pratap’s navy layered skirt, Fightercock’s jumper and flap pocket trousers, Varun Bahl’s green net blouse with silver sequinned collar and Rohit Bal’s cream chiffon rippled cape.
And there you have it, the perfect capsule summer resort wardrobe...