Rohit Bal feels fashion industry is witnessing 'the death of originality'
The designer is not a fan of the current trend of celebrities being vehicles of fashion collections.
“Now all I see is a C-class celebrity walking the ramp,” Bal said in a magazine interview recently. “I don’t see the collection being highlighted in articles or on social media. No interviews of the designers. It’s like a virus eating into fashion and destroying it. It’s seeping into people’s mindsets – everyone looks the same. I think we’re going through the death of originality.”
Some marks to Bal for saying it like it is.
The 26th le Bal was a power-packed soirée as twenty débutantes and cavaliers from prominent families around the world came together for an evening of high fashion, networking and fund raising.
Started in 1992, le Bal des Débutantes - the brainchild of Ophélie Renouard, is hosted in the French Capital every year to raise funds and awareness for two causes – Enfants d’Asie (Children of Asia) and The Selini Institute, a non-profit organisation providing care and supporting the mental health of women and teenage mothers.
This year saw four Indian heirs and heiresses make their debut at the high society affair that has earlier been attended by Isha Ambani, Maharaja of Jaipur Padmanabh Singh and his sister Princess Gauravi Kumari, and Ananya Pandey.
In Pic: This year's débutantes at le Bal.
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