Today, you can change the way you dress forever!

Over the past week, we have given you a peek preview of 12 designers. Here’s the low- down on what the rest  have on offer:

Yashomoti Das Gupta: If you’re looking for some innovative costume jewellery, the search ends at Yashomoti Das Gupta’s studio, Salankara. By moulding terracotta into jewellery, she has taken Bengal clay to a new level. Look for custom-made, ready-to-wear range of high fashion, painted terracotta accessories at the Collezione Bengal.

Agnimitra Paul: A visit to a fashion event ignited the spark of creativity in this student of Business Management, who soon trained herself in fashion designing and launched her label, ‘Igna’. Her collections at Collezionie Bengal will include panelled skirts, kurtas, saris…each a winner all the way! And we are talking about a designer who has designed the costumes for Esha Deol in her debut movie ‘Koi Mere Dil Se Pooche’. She has been designing for various films and celebrity clients like Raima and Riya Sen, Hema Malini Sen, Indrani Sen, Esha Deol, and Mithun Chakraborty.

Neeta Kapur: Neeta Kapur began work as a designer way back in 1989, when her studio Karigar was launched at Kolkata. Hand painted clothes, prints, zardosi embroidery are just some of the things which are combined together to create an eclectic collection. She has held shows in the UK, Kenya, Bali, Jakarta, Singapore, USA, and Dubai, where her ethnic representation of India’s ancient workmanship has been much applauded.

Neeta will bring to Collezione Bengal clothes that are very funky, fun clothes, each one a bold statement in style and content. The butterflies on her crushed skirts, gold prints, and traditional motifs all collate to present you with a never-seen-before collection of friendly, printed clothes. Good for the eye and the heart.

Raja Biswas:What began as an exercise at the behest of friend Rituporno Ghosh, the internationally renowned director of this ad man’s film, stirred within him a passion to indulge his hobby of dressing women as a part time profession. Soon Raj Biswas’ label, Suvashish, was launched with a lot of fanfare at Kolkata some 10 years ago and Aparna Sen was one of his first clients.

Raja’s clothes are always understated, classy and very pret. Ogaan, Ffolio etc are just some of the stores, which stock his classics. His clients after moving to the Capital include wives of ambassadors, and the consulate crowd. This is the first time that the publicity shy advertising man is showcasing his clothes at Mumbai at the Collezione Bengal show.

This is also the first time that Raja’s studio has churned out a bright palette, the Krishna-Leela collection, which will be celebrate the love in Lord Krishna’s life using a lot of bright blues to bring out the theme. The other Fish collection inspired by Bengal’s love for the aquatic animal finds expression as prints, patchwork, and embroidery in a novel manner on clothes. One warning: Raja is known to sell out quickly, so if you are interested, come early!

Svayam: Svayam is the brand built by the designer duo of Sangeeta Saraf and Namrata Tikmani. It is the culmination of two professionally trained budding designers and has been in existence since 1998. Svayam was conceptualized to provide outfits to the contemporary lady keeping in mind the demands of good looks, trendy fabrics and designs. Svayam also tries to keep alive the traditional techniques of hand block printing.

Namrata trained with a renowned fashion designer to learn the nuances of designing and the practical aspects of the business. She has the ability to translate the requirements into beautiful designs which reflect the persona of the contemporary woman. Sangeeta was earlier associated with a television production company, but her love for fashion overtook her. Sangeeta has the knack of creating designs out of the ordinary, thereby offering value addition to her customers.   
 
 Jyoti Khaitan: Jyoti’s mantra is wearability. Her design concepts are elaborate using unconventional embellishments and accessories. At the Collezione Bengal she will have saris, lehengas, kurtas, westerns and indo-westerns, offering many fusion options as well. Intricately hand embroidered and accessorised with crystals, beads, precious and semi-precious stones, the pieces are beautiful specimens of the art of zardozi. On the other hand are equally beautiful works of fine resham embroidery exhibiting the art of aari. Each item of a collection reflects a design concept which combines trend and tradition.
 
Shantanu Goenka: He calls his clothes ‘my art, my babies, my life’. Hailed as the new face of haute couture, Shantanu Goenka specialises in Indian trousseau and bridal wear for women. Fashion guru
JJ Valaya’s student and winner of the Best Designer of the Year Award, he is unafraid to experiment, right from colours, the cut, the methods of drape and accessories.

His exquisite glamorous clothes are often jewellery inspired. Swarovski crystals therefore are part of most of his outfits. His clothes also display fine skeins of traditional embroidery, colour and fabric, silhouettes and styling.

Sharbari Dutta: She is perhaps the only woman designer in India to design exclusively for men. Sharbari Dutta’s clients include M F Husain, Amol Palekar, Kapil Dev to Sanjeev Goenka. Her kurtas, dhotis, sherwanis, jackets, shawls, angarkhas are hand embroidered with designs she draws herself. Her work is truly exclusive, one-of-a-kind, unrepeated, as she conjures designs and images directly on cloth. They are a fusion of world art, a blending of the classical with the modern, the pragmatic with the romantic, and reality with fantasy.

Kiran Uttam Ghosh: Simple cuts, no multilayered designs, shapely and extremely flattering for well-shaped silhouettes, Kiran Uttam Ghosh’s clients include Naomi Campbell, Tina Ambani and Raveena Tandon.

Her label, Kimono, is synonymous with innovation and consistent growth. She is also one of the few designers to understand the intricacies of the prêt-a-porter or ready-to-wear markets. Her rich experience as a colourist, her intimate knowledge of Indian textiles and iconography, have contributed to her creating a look that is essentially Indian with a modern twist, marked by flowing lines and great drapery.

Nandita Basu: She worked for seven years with ‘spicy’ designer Suneet Verma. And it is not tough to understand why they worked together. Nandita Basu’s clothes are primarily skirts, T-shirts, tops, jackets, coats and trousers. Her palette of fabrics includes denim, wool, lycra, cotton, silk, georgette and linen.

At once classic, at once quirky. She focuses on surface textures, with techniques like kantha, appliqué work, quilting and hand embroidery. All the while emphasizing on fit, finish and form.

Monapali: They are called the ‘silent contributors’ to the boost on the Indian fashion scene. Never flamboyant, much like vintage wine, their outfits are full-bodied, yet mellow. Quiet, understated elegance marks their every creation.

From light formals to ornate silks, their trademark quality lies in their eclectic mix of design elements. Their inspiration lies in the ethnic cultural roots of India. This sister duo revived Kantha work, Bengal’s traditional needlecraft, from relative oblivion, to the heights of haute couture.

Leena Taneja: Leena Taneja trained in fashion designing at Delhi and soon moved to Kolkata. Here, she picked karigars and developed colour and finesse in their workmanship. She launched her label and kept creating garments for the South-East Asian market, never looking at retailing in India, except creating garments for few of her social and celebrity friends. 

She began retailing in India in 2005, after her clients here in India literally forced her to open her own design studio at Kolkata for their sake. The studio stocks Indian sizes and designs, a plethora of colours all styled to suit Indian bodies. The clothes are ornate, rich and expensive. She makes no apology for not serving pret as she believes that there are no shortcuts to looking classy and dressed. Her prices start at Rs 3,000.

 At Collezione Bengal, Leena offers colourful, sexy, traditional clothes and a mix of different mediums like mix media in art. Each of Leena’s piece vows to make you stand out in a crowd. Each a conversation piece - rich and regal.

Anshu Bhattacharya: Her mantra is haute trends in cool cottons. She lends her creativity to natural fabrics in earthy, striking tones. Embellished with exquisitely hand-painted and intricate, nonetheless subtle embroidery, her vibrant ensembles of kurta, churidars and odhnis for men and women display and artful confluence of East and West. Her fusion wear is wearable, versatile and extremely affordable, with exquisite cuts, finish and fit.

Chhuti & Raja: This wife and husband duo’s creativity and ingenuity have given ancient Indian traditional crafts like Kalamkari tie-and-dye block print and batik a new edge. They specialise in natural and organic colours, but their new collection showcases vibrant colours, like strawberry pink, brilliant blue, moss green, sunflower yellow and monochrome. Their predominantly Indo-Western outfits range from saris, salwar-kameez, trousers, kurtis and jackets.

Collezione Bengal, presented by TAG HEUER and DNA is in association with The Hilton Towers, Mumbai; Co -sponsored by Indian Airlines, Chateau Indage and Shahana.