Young fashion brands showed promise at Fashion Pakistan Week Day 2
The fashion oscillated; up, down, high, low, freewheeling between the interesting and the mundane and often teetering right at the middle. Sitting through the eight designer collections, slotted for the second day of Fashion Pakistan week (FPW), my emotions varied accordingly; excited, interested, vaguely interested, not interested at all and finally, aghast at one particular collection.
There’s always that one particular collection, isn’t there? I hope that one day I attend fashion week and don’t feel the need to rant about maintaining standards and editing out a certain bad collection or two. It hasn’t happened yet. Ever.
But it would be unfair to judge FPW’s second day on the basis of one bumbling, fumbling collection. The designer lineup boasted some popular power players as well as promising new names. It’s just that, throughout, there was a feeling that there could have been – and should have been – more.
Here’s the lowdown.