Misha Lakhani makes FPW Day 1 worth the trip
One knows what to expect from a fashion week centred around a ‘Winter Festive’ theme, given that Pakistan’s chief source of winter festivities are weddings. One knew that the Fashion Pakistan Week catwalk would be perpetually littered with bling, shimmer and all the flotsam and jetsam that tends to entrance the wedding-bound crowd.
But one also expects a fashion week to set a few trends in motion.
Wedding-wear, in essence, may be a predictable, generically pretty genre but this is no excuse for presenting design that fumbles through a mish-mash of gaudy inspirations.
This was the unfortunate case on the first day of FPW. The runway shows started at a high enough note but quickly fizzled down to a mundane hum, revived only occasionally with a few spurts of well-conceived design. Even the diverse, flawless looks presented by the N-Pro styling team working backstage couldn’t save the day.
A word about the red carpet: The fashion week red carpet should ideally be replete with style statements and glamour, with celebrities and fashion icons taking center stage. At FPW, though, the carpet yawned on, thronged merely by journalists, bloggers and the small minority of Karachi’s design fraternity that chose to turn up.