Collection Sheet – 2008

MERCEDEZ FASHION TOUR 2008
Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Pune.
The Wendell Rodricks Collection for Mercedes Benz is a tribute to fashion and style, sleek looks and practicality, performance and precision. It applies to both clothing and a great car renowned worldwide for setting international standards of excellence, comfort and style. 

In a collection of five suites, the Wendell Rodricks collection for Mercedes Benz moves from Whispers in space, Aquatic melodies, Crackling rhythms, Whistling winds and Earth sounds. Using a palette of blacks, blues, fire, white and earth tones, the collection is treated to signature Wendell Rodricks style. Layered looks, extreme fluidity, crinkle fabrics, metallic highlights and precision cut to flow with nature. As impressive variety of fabrics ensures that the Wendell Rodricks Mercedes Benz is a timeless classic. Using his hallmark cutting and sensual application to silhouette and style, Wendell Rodricks creates for Mercedes Benz an unforgettable collection that represents the best of fashion for the automobile giant in the most glowing, stylish means possible.

 

 

 

TROPICAL ISLAND
Grand Finale, Lakme Fashion Week Summer 2008, NCPA, Mumbai.
The Wendell Rodricks Tropical Island collection for Lakme Summer 2008 Grand Finale is a tribute to the urban woman with an island spirit. In his minimalist style, Wendell Rodricks created clothes that address and flatter various body shapes. Using the islands of the world as inspiration, the collection used birds, butterflies and fish in Matisse shapes and a colour vibe of Yves Saint Laurent in the 1970s.The fabrics are woven in tiny villages and are often dyed with leaves collected by tribals, part of an ongoing seven year programme, which the Goa environment conscious and social activist designer supports. 

 New in this Lakme Grand Finale 2008 are crinkled wave scarves, batik hand painted seamed sarongs, seamless ribbon and elastic mesh dresses, Matisse foam skirts and accessories. Button insert, petal shaped lycra surface embellishment and layered trapeze line tunics. New to the Wendell Rodricks signature style is a celebration of colour which is a true reflection of the yogic calm, youthful energy and colourful vibrancy of a woman whose heart forever lives on a tropical island.   

 

ROMANTICA
Chivas Fashion Tour 2008 at Mumbai, Delhi and Dubai
Wendell Rodricks creates a suite of cocktail dresses and evening loungewear in a romantic mood. Inspired by the Romantic Era of the late 1800’s, the clothes borrow from the easy beach style in Goa. These are clothes for rockstar chicks, boho spirits, hippie flower children and the romantic at heart. Soft pastel tones and resort details such as shells, mother of pearl, coconut fibre, feathers and ribbon embellish the collection. This is the romantic side of a designer in love with the feminine women of another era for the romantic women of today. Pastels have been treated to colonial dusty tones and cut in a manner that is typical of the Wendell Rodricks. From Goa and the early British romantic Orientalists, Wendell Rodricks creates for the Chivas Fashion Tour a unique collection called “Romantica”.