FPW rings in the festive look.

KARACHI -- Fashion Pakistan Week Winter/Festive '19 got under way at a local hotel on Wednesday with a line-up of 20 fashion labels, as well as both emerging and established designers, showing their wares over three days.

The day one line-up included AlKaram Studio, Boheme by Kanwal, Gogi by Hassan Riaz, Yasmin Zaman and Ayesha Farook Hashwani (AFH). Day two was reserved for Italian designer Stella Jean Roma whose focus was on embroideries and crafts from the Chitral and Hunza region, Humayun Alamgir, The Pink Tree Company, Zuria Dor, Zelburry, Splash and Maheen Khan. Day three of FPW will showcase designs by Zainab Chottani, Huma Adnan, Nauman Arfeen, Saba Asad, Shiza Hasan, Sadaf Fawad Khan, Ayesha Ibrahim and Deepak Perwani.

Day one opened with AlKaram Studio's highly sartorial collection 'La Vie en Rose' (Life in Pink) comprising outfits for men, women and children, and which melded with Pink Ribbon Pakistan's Pinktober campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer.

'La Vie en Rose' showed cocktail and evening wear with oversized pleated ruffles, frills, florets in fine fabrics such as voiles and nets with voluminous skirts, embellished jackets, and Eastern wear in velvets and embroidered cloth in rich, deep bloom tones with hints of pinks, blushes and corals. Muneeb Butt, Ayeza Khan, child star Sami Khan among others walked as showstoppers in the segment.

Boheme by Kanwal in 'Gul-i-Nar' showed the traditional and popular gajj Sindhi embroidery-inspired collection with colourful fine silk tread embroidery, textures, techniques such as bandhani for dupattas and ganga jamna badla work and applique in strictly traditional and Eastern silhouettes, and in tones of red and maroon. The collection was classical and commercially friendly, and employed the liberal use of...