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‘Menswear’ by Lalit and Sunita Jalan   Lalit and Sunita Jalan, two Kolkata-based designers, unveiled their collection at the Lakme India Fashion Week (LIFW) 2001. We caught up with the couple on the eve of their show. The designer husband-wife duo from Kolkata presents a perfect photo-op, as they give finishing touches to put up their collection at the LIFW 2001. Lalit and Sunita are very much keen on exhibiting their collection here. Their enthusiasm is intact despite a hectic schedule that involved transporting all their collection and the paraphernalia to Mumbai. Lalit Jalan says, “It’s definitely worth it, and I am sure that the efforts will pay off. We hope to do a good business here.” “We were impressed with the show last year and its outcome hence we decided to participate this time.” Lalit and Sunita Jalan were invited to take part in the LIFW 2000. Then they had decided to wait and preferred to watch how it turned out. Sunita explains, “We were impressed with the show last year and its outcome hence we decided to participate this time.” Lalit believes that the LIFW 2001 presents a great opportunity for designers to go global and exhibit their collection to a larger audience. He adds, “Even established international designers like Kenzo made their way up through such events.” The renowned Japanese couturier had asked Lalit Jalan to design his ethnic wardrobe. “We dressed him up in dhotis and kurtas, and he loved all of them,” Sunita smiles. It took them about four weeks to compile the menswear collection for the LIFW 2001. Classified into seven different lines, the collection promises to be classy, sober and imperial, with a tinge of techno added to it. “The final royal wedding and trousseau is going to be very impressive,” says Sunita. They have experimented with bottom variations and the cropped look. Though, Lalit and Sunita have extensively used jewellery throughout their designing career, they have decided against it this time, and let the silhouette come out. White, beige and browns, the quintessential colours in any menswear collection, will also dominate in Lalit and Sunita’s collection. Other colours on the pallette will be orange, black, rust and blue. The ‘Lalit Jalan’ label is priced in the range of Rs 2000 to Rs. 30,000. This includes kurtas, pyjamas, dhotis, salwars and sherwanis. The duo is keen on tapping the international market. Lalit says, “We don’t just want to cater to NRIs but to other foreign buyers as well.” Lalit and Sunita prefer calling their collection simply ‘menswear’. “We want to call it neither Indian, nor fusion nor western,” says Sunita. “It’s rather an international look in an Indian way,” she sums up.