Payal Jain endorses inclusivity in fashion at LMIFW

Designer Payal Jain, in her latest collection, paid an ode to her father and sent out a message of inclusivity in fashion at the ongoing Lotus Make-up India Fashion Week SS'20.

The designer said she was in the midst of working on the collection, 'Crescent Moon', when she lost her father last year.

The name derives from a poem of Rabindranath Tagore, who her father keenly followed in his lifetime.

"He loved Tagore and his works. The Crescent Moon was his favourite poem as was the colour white. He lived in white, he loved white and also his personality was very white," Jain said at the post show conference.

The silhouettes, mostly in white but with a little play of red, included gowns, ensemble pieces, skirts and sarees, with heavy hand crafted embroidery and floral designs.

The designer worked mostly with natural fabrics, organics and silk created, especially for the collection which was inspired by neo-classical costumes from the early 19th century.

Jain said she doesn't believe in making clothes for selective women and has designed the collection keeping in mind the idea of fashion for all.

"I don't believe fashion should have a bias, whether it is gender or skin tone or body type or shape or size. So there were models who were short, plus size, transgender or with dark skin tone."