Priya Ahluwalia sent out the collection, which she named intimacy in the atrium of nomad hotel leafy orthodox-style in Covent Garden. “It felt that a minor breath of fresh air is here,” he said. Ahluwalia’s dual heritage was playing an impact, this time around enthusiasm and tension wrapped in love affairs. “I was researching a lot of love in Bollywood films, Motown, Indian short pictures, and stories of Nigerian gods, Oshun, love and fertility like Nigerian gods,” she said.
True to the main energies of his brand, Ahluwalia collected a lineup of tailoring, denim, knitwear and party dressing for women and men for spring. Its symbolism is played subtle through contexts of switchbacks of emotions that come with romantic involvement with someone. “This may be the best feeling ever, and it makes you feel lighter and big and wide – or sometimes it can make you feel tight and narrow and as you are squeezed,” he said.
Draping and flyway silk fringing represented “tension and release” – the name Gbo reached Ahluwalia, looking at the twisting forms of the idols. A denim dress was cut from one side, perhaps the vulnerability was revealed. Poufed skirt indicated on the bubbling sensations of new romance; Black Cherbs, handwritten love letters, and a print of marigolds – symbols of Indian weddings – were scattered on men’s summer shirts.
In fact, it was the continuity of all his signature: clothes and practical utilitarian parks and casual zipd jackets were distributed with moral and durable practices, Ahluwalia embedded as the base of his brand because he started it five years ago.
