Anuj Sharma 19th, Sep 2009 3.00 PM

With buttons and button holes as a theme can a collection be created? Well, when the designer is Anuj Sharma anything is possible! His “Button Masala” collection gave the audience a lot to think above the next time they fasten their garments in the traditional manner. Allowing the wearer to join in with his creative talents, Anuj felt that the humble button and its opening should be given importance on the ramp; so garments had multiple possibilities as the wearer can change the silhouettes according her whims and fancies. Working around three colours – red, black and off-white with a touch of nude thrown, in Anuj sprinkled them with multi-coloured buttons in grid pattern keeping the silhouette either tubular, toga like, asymmetric or slightly fluid. Balanced on multiple straps that were buttoned to the body of the garment, the collection was ideal for summer. Allowing the fabric to fall in its natural form over the body and then buttoning the garment at various strategic points Anuj showed a simple but very effective line.

His advice to budding designers is, to take a rectangular fabric, add a square grid of 1-2 inches and attach buttons on intersecting points of the grid, and then fix straps, add button holes and then let your imagination run wild. But can everyone be as imaginative as Anuj Sharma is the question? Once more Anuj Sharma delighted the wearer and the viewer with his strong creative directions.