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Rahul Mishra: Birdsong There was a tweet – of a bird, not the digital variety – to close the four-week international season. Rahul Mishra, the Indian designer who goes far beyond his country’s fashion clichés of vivid colours and sari prints, sent out one of those rare collections of quiet beauty.  Yes, there was a little flesh on view – and not just because of the nude fabrics that moved from the blush of a dawn sky to midnight blue. Part of a wispy chiffon skirt veiled a stretch of leg. But mostly, where there was a window on the body, there was a bird – embroidered perhaps at the midriff – and a symbol of the village where Rahul Mishra grew up, in North India’s Uttar Pradesh. In his show notes he described the equilibrium between man and nature in that peaceful and sustainable coexistence.  The designer has brought employment to rural workers in remote places, importing wool from the surrounds of Sydney, Australia to be transformed by Indian hand workers. The delicacy of the knits, which were so fine that they could barely be identified as wool on the runway, was breathtaking. Such pieces illustrated why the designer won the International Woolmark Prize 2013-14.  I liked the perky sparrow embroidered on a wool and silk organza dress. But I was also moved by an embroidered pattern of the rooftops of village huts to mark the place that Rahul Mishra still calls home. (责任编辑：admin) |