Graceful ornaments which were embroidered in subtly coloured shades settled randomly like falling autumn leaves on Payal Jain's creations and adored hemlines, sleeves, yokes of dresses, jackets and coats.
The silhouettes of her collection Black Earth were maintained as easy and as clean as possible in a contemporary reference to the stylish simplified cuts of the 1960s.
Jacket styles were interpreted as elegant capes which showed extended swinging backs. Sheath dresses ended just above the knee and emphasized the empire line. Hoods, wide necklines and high collars underlined strong sartorial skills.
Embellishments seemed to be inspired by organic matter like leaves, branches, flowers and creepers and used colours from a natural palette such as oak, chestnut, pine, maple and stone.
The random and spontaneous placement of the embroidered ornamentation was consequently continued for a second range of snow white ensembles which paraded light coloured butterflies and abstract motifs.
Fabrics were ranging from knitted lurex to crushed and crinkled satin weaves to wools and suedes. There were tastefully coordinated dresses with overcoats to be worn as ensembles.
This concept of coordinates as well as the accessories like knee high boots, long gloves and knitted caps created a very elegant and complete metropolitan chic for fall/winter 08.