Wendell Rodricks
Residing in the remote village of Colvale, Goa, designer Wendell Rodricks has successfully managed to remain in the main stream of fashion, creating new looks each season that inspire and influence Indian fashion. He is the first Indian designer to be invited to display his garments at the world's largest garment fair at IGEDO, Dusseldorf.
Wendell began his career in fashion after a successful tenure in hotel management. Trained in Los Angeles and Paris, he returned to India in 1988. After a brief span of two years, designing and styling for reputed companies like Garden Vareli, Lakme and De Beers, Wendell established his own label in 1990.
He has been actively involved in all areas of fashion-from lecturing at SNDT University in Mumbai to being a patron of the Kasturba Gandhi Memorial Trust, Goa.
The Wendell Rodricks signature style is unique in India, blending ancient Indian geometry with a relaxed Goan attitude. Using natural Indian fabrics, cut in a linear line, the silhouette is sheer, layered, draped and fluid. Emphasis is on concrete themes, experimental colour combinations, exotic fibre weaves, structural simplicity based on geometric Indian shapes and hand-painted details.
Wendell is presently researching the history of Goan costumes and writing a book to document Goa's clothing tradition.
For a list of retail outlets, log on www.wendellrodricks.com
Theme of the Collection: This is the invisible, dark Goa no one knows about. Unless you live in villages, which over time, bleed their stories. Whispers on the wind disclose dark family secrets. Of ghosts haunting the shimer (boundary lines between villages). Where devnsars or mischievous spirits steal your feni or cigarettes as they clear the way for the palkhi, chariot of the Gods. Behind the palkhi, arrive the terrible demons (shaitans).
Wendell Rodricks Spring Summer 2007 collection for Lakme Fashion Week goes beyond the veils of dark secrets to disclose an ethereal, mysterious collection. Like the spirits and exorcists who are almost always beautiful women, the clothes in vapourous white, midnight black, dusk gray and blood red are a tribute to Goa`s other world. View the Wendell Rodricks Collection in Lakme Fashion Week - Spring Summer 2007 |
Full list of designers:
Abhishek Dutta, Allen Solly, Anand Kabra, Anupama Dayal, Arjun Saluja, Chaitanya Rao, Clive Rundle, Debarghya Bairagi & Navonil Das, Deepti Toor, James Ferreira, Julie Kagti, Lascelles Symons, Leonard, Nalanda Bhandari, Nandita Mahtani, Narendra Kumar, Nathalie Garcon, Nikasha Tawadey, Payal Singhal, Pria Kataria Puri, Priyadarshini Rao, Rahul Mishra & Samar Firdos, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Sanchita Ajjampur, Sandip Biswas, Sanjay Malhotra, Savio Jon, Seema Khan, Shyamal & Bhumika, Sun Goddess, Surily Goel, Swapnil Shinde, Vikram Phadnis, Vineet Bahl, Wendell Rodricks. |
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