Nawaz’s new line will celebrate attributes women that women cherish most such as strength, sensuality and elegance. PHOTO: PUBLICITY
He’s as crazy as they get in this line of business, with a wacky sense of humour and an even crazier sense of fashion presentation. But that doesn’t mean that Munib Nawaz makes outlandish clothes. Far from it. His signature look is a well tailored blazer and trousers and a well structured mutedsherwani: Clothing that defines the quintessential man.
Yet when he takes to the ramp, he will always spruce up the whole game with eccentric machinations like making models behave like Punjabi pehalwans ready for a kushti. And while he’s firmly entrenched himself with men’s wear, he’s now venturing with full force into the territory of women’s wear as well, a glimpse of which he offered at the vintage cars and fashion show held by the Pearl Continental a few days ago.
As I walk in, he’s bent over a piece of A4 paper, trying to sketch out a design locked in his head. “I’m trying to add Munib Nawazness to the designs submitted to me by my team,” he offers by way of explanation, as we chuckle over how his workers have no definition for plain embellishment-free clothing and call anything with work on it ‘pret’. “I want women to do away with gold eventually, that’s what my formal line will be about.”
