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Shades of Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan designer/choreographer, Senaka de Silva's fashion's entitled 'Shades of Sri Lanka 2001' premiered at the Le Meridian Mon Par Nasse in Paris, the heartland of the fashion world recently, and his collection for 2002 will be shown at the Crown Plaza, Dubai on February 19.

Senaka's creations which have already graced the catwalks in Oman, Abu Dhabi, Rome, Brussels and Amsterdam, gives a glimpse of our paradise isle Sri Lanka and its diverse multi-ethnic culture through colour, texture and design. 

He succeeds in bringing to the limelight folkloric designs inspired by old traditional dance costumes, the colours of undersea themes, wild life skin prints, rituals etc. And it's not wrong to say that Senaka's collection is purely Sri Lankan because he uses only local fabrics such as batiks, handlooms, crotche and beeralu lace, hand painted fabrics and traditional embroidery.

Handbeaded tops with skirts inspired by the Kandyan dance costume.

Endemic snake skin prints transformed into evening wear in batik on cotton lycra.

At his Dubai presentation, one of Sri Lanka's leading bridal designers, Harris Wijesinghe will also display some exclusive bridal outfits designed by him.

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