Monday, August 4, 2008

The Trends In Indian Jewellery


Indian fashion industry marks diversity. The fashion sense that started developing hundreds of years ago, still survives, but now displays a fusion of its journey. Whether we talk about the tribal jewellery of Rajhastan, or the bangles and jhumkey of traditional India, it has all amalgamated into the new trends of fusion.

The jewellery has not just developed in terms of wearing styles and designs, but also in terms of metals and materials. Gold has been the most popular texture used for Indian fashion world, and not just plain gold, but its purest and most malleable form, “kundan”, has been talk of the town. Fashion in India doesn’t just adorn beauty, but it also signifies the aesthetic sense, status and affordability of Indian public.

Every body part discovered its own fashion. Such as if ears had “jhumkey”, the arms had "bazu band". If bangles or “churian” adorned wrists, "bindis" and "tikkas" adorned forehead. From `kamar band` signifying the waist to the "payal" or anklet signifying the ankle, fashion defined its own meaning in Indian history.

Although gold will always remain the symbol of traditional Indian jewellery, Indian fashion has incorporated a lot of different textures. Gold just not remains in yellow gold color, but now white, blue, green and other forms are coming as well. Bohemian Jewellery is the brown hardwood jewellery bringing more diversity to the textures. Next, diamond tends to be the most expensive and popular fashion trend. Its copies in other textures such as zircon are also available, but today it defines the status and fashion sense of every aspiring Indian woman.