Future models shine bright

Move over all you models and fashion show stoppers! A young brigade from Hyderabad is all set to arrive on the big canvas and make waves in the not too distant future.

That was the message that reverberated loud and clear while watching the 90-minute fashion show, ‘Kids Evolve-2017’ that featured young boys and girls walking the ramp and flaunting a multitude of styles from South India that were ‘created’ dexterously by student-designers.

Taken under yardstick, the show that was pioneered by Lakhotia Institute of Design (LID) in association with Fevicryl, at their Banjara Hills Road No 10 campus, was a runaway hit as children, of whom a majority was below ten years of age, caught the eye with expressions that would be the envy of the best of supermodels.

Aptly themed ‘Of the kids, for the kids and by the kids’, it was a stand-out showing by LID students, who added pep to each of the exclusive classifications that included fashion statements ranging from Elemental Princess, Kaleidoscope, Super Villains, Telangana Ammailu, Karnataka Currents, Vintage Heroes to dress codes from Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

So mesmerising the performances were that not only did each ‘model’ catch the attention of the audience but they made it so seemingly effortless while carrying the flair and elegance of seasoned stalwarts on their young shoulders. According to LID Principal and CEO, Ayesha Azhar Mujahid, ‘The kids delivered a complete job. They carried-off in a style that had all of us brimming with joy.

Credit ought to go to the faculty, the choreographers, who monitored the dress-rehearsals and the student-designers, who all did a remarkably cohesive job in stitching together styles that were contemporary, old-fashioned and those visionary statements that will be dominate the style quotient in the coming days.’

It was a day when no one could do any wrong and each was a winner outright. The expressions and the movements of the ‘models’ were exhilarating. Thankfully, there was no jury around as it would have been one hell of a job to deliver a verdict as there was no second best. And, yes there was a young show-stopper, a la Priyanka Chopra at the Met Gala this year, which climaxed the dazzlingly momentous day.