Sky is the limit in fashion designing

Four girls from different cities of India, who came down to Pune to study design, have successfully displayed their fashion designing skills at the Symbiosis Institute of Design (SID) in Pune.

Priyanka Tejaswee, a Patna girl, who is crazy about fashion designing said, "I jumped into this field as I have dreamt about it since my childhood and kept designing something or the other all the time."

While talking about her latest collection that was displayed at Symbiosis Theatre, Tejaswee said, "The collection was inspired from Dreams of a Fashion illustrator (Aponte Carlos). Dreams are pensive, vague, and meaningless, without logics and hence create a sensation of illusion."

Her co-designer, Aathira Baby, who hails from Cochin, said, "The dream illustration is inspired by artist Aponte Carlos, who keeps falling in love with his artwork and not with any person."

Baby said, "My mother is an art teacher and she is the one who encouraged me since childhood."

Aathira is happy that in this collection she could work according to her choice.

"In this collection we could do what we wanted, we exaggerated a lot as this was a dream illustration and we could work without any limitation, which is my working style. I did all that I wanted to do and seeing my first designs on stage were the best feeling in the world. It was like a dream come true."

Another student from Mumbai, Sneha Berlia, said she joined Symbiosis to understand designing better.

"I knew some of the alumni of the college who advised me to join this institute and I am happy I did so," said Sneha.

Talking about her collection that was displayed at Symbiosis, Berlia said, "The collection called Astitva (Identity of a woman) was designed to revive the dying art of Kalamkari and to reinstate the power of women, who believe in themselves."

Berlia has worked with a lot of enthusiasm on her favourite design called Kaleidoscope. It is basically shattered bits off-colour glasses coming together to form different geometric designs. Taking inspiration from this and using banjara embroidery of Andhra Pradesh, she came up with a casual line collection.

Its craft belongs to the nomadic tribes of Andhra Pradesh. It is one of the traditional Indian embroidery that is used in its contemporary way. While her co-designer Yoshita Podar, who is also from Mumbai said, she joined Symbiosis to get a degree in fashion designing.

Podar who worked on Astitva said, "It has been inspired from our seventh semester project where we stressed on Goddess Durga to represent women power."

She developed her love for designing over the years, after understanding textiles that her father works with and an additional knowledge of accessories that she learnt from her mother.

All the four girls want to make a name in the fashion industry. The budding artists experienced deja-vu after displaying their designs on stage. This has inspired them to touch new heights in the field of designing.