Their gait may have had the naivety of a greenhorn, but their deep, unfettered designs, putting on which they themselves walked the ramp, showed a mellow promise.
The biannual designer show Vrishti —2015, by the students of the Centre for Costume and Fashion Designing under the University of Calicut, acted as a brilliant showcase of budding talents in costume designers and choreographers at the Tagore Centenary Hall here on Monday.
Refreshingly punctuated by music and dance performances by the students of the centre, the seventh edition of Vrishti offered a variety of designs in as many as 24 themes in undergraduate and postgraduate sections.
More than 50 students, who completed their postgraduate and undergraduate courses, participated.
Each contestant put on show as many as five outfits based on different themes.
The students, who designed their costumes and choreographed their movements, also acted as models to walk the ramp wearing their works.
Sreeja Sreedharan, who developed her design around ‘The Sea’ as a theme, bagged the best designer award in the MSc section while V.M. Aishwarya, who worked around the idea ‘Witchcraft and Wizardry’, secured the best designer title in the BSc section.
Roshni Raveendran bagged the second price in the undergraduate section for her design on the theme ‘Gypsy Queen.’
Holy, Forest, The Power of Women, Chitrasamhitha, Calico of Gujarat, and Nature were some of the other prominent themes of the designer show, which put on display an interesting array of costumes in both the traditional and the modern mould.
University vice chancellor M. Abdul Salam opened the show in the morning.
Hemalatha Menon, faculty and coordinator of the event, presided over the function.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Salam urged the students and the centre authorities to make the programmes they offered from the centre more “market-oriented” and creative to suit the changing times.
