With much of the world gearing up to re-emerge from the confines of our dwellings, the next generation of designers is proposing the ideal sartorial solutions. Supriya Lele sits in the same category as the likes of Nensi Dojaka and Charlotte Knowles; young women designing for their own demographic. British-Indian designer Supriya Lele’s fusion of her Indian heritage with geometric, skin-bearing silhouettes has already proven popular with the Instagram generation, with Rihanna, Bella Hadid, and Dua Lipa having previously sported her designs. Now, Supriya Lele SS22 showcases the designer’s flair for geometric cutouts and strategic drapery.
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Crop tops and keyhole cutouts feature heavily; making use of the hallmarks that have made Lele’s designs so coveted over the past year. Hopeful shades of sunshine yellow, sea blue, acid green, and raspberry pink comprise the majority of the collection, with dots of failsafe black throughout. The use of chiffon in pants and dresses allows Lele’s knack for drapery to shine through, with the sheer fabric delicately showing off the female form. What’s old is now new again, with Lele managing to resurrect the 2000s staple capri pants and make them fit for 2021, with two super high-waisted iterations paired with a sheer shirt and barely-there bra top.
Supriya Lele SS22 also sees the introduction of embroidered sequin pieces in the form of netted dresses, tops, and a (very) low-waisted skirt, which the designer worked on with an embroidery house in India. Nods to Lele’s Indian heritage are also displayed in the ruching technique on bras and crop tops and the style of asymmetrical drapery that subtly references the fall of a sari.
Skimpy and sexy yet somehow still understated, Supriya Lele SS22 encourages us to invite sensuality into quotidian dressing.
Words by Arabella Johnson
