Multi-designer boutique Collage added some more names to its brand list recently. Launched at a coffee morning called ‘Clouds in my Coffee’, the all-new collection at the boutique sports labels of popular Delhi-based designers Kavita Bhartia and Vineet Bahl among others.

The coffee morning saw many of Bangalore’s fashionistas make a beeline at the boutique counter as fresh new stock beckoned. The store has new labels in Indian and westerns for women and men.

Kavita, the one behind the Ogaan boutique in Delhi and instrumental in publishing Indian editions of several international fashion magazines, has stocked her India Fashion Week 2007 collection at Collage.

Titled ‘Eden’, her autumn-winter collection attempts to illustrate ‘Eden, the tree of immortality, temptation and life thereafter. The collection is in a warm palette of moss browns, emerald greens, ruby reds and striking golden-yellow.

The primary fabrics include a blend of raw silks and viscose knits and is embellished with traditional Indian techniques of block print and hand embroidery. Heavily accented towards creating a global look, Kavita’s new collection is an eclectic and innovative mix of Indian tradition with legendary lore.

Designer Vineet Bahl brings to Bangalore his spring-summer collection showcased at the Lakme Fashion Week 2007. Under the label ‘IndjaPink’, Vineet’s new collection for women is a line of easy high-summer separates in muted pastels with little shocks of brights.

The collection experiments with the empire-line silhouette while reinterpreting certain cultural motifs in a modern idiom. IndjaPink can be best described as a cross-cultural label. It’s modus operandi has always been to take a leitmotif of a culture and give it a modern spin. This year’s line contains six leitmotifs.

‘Victoriana’ is a pure white-on-white line in ultra-light voile with Baroque motifs with traces of chikankari. There is also pin-pleating and fine lace work for that heightened Victorian look.

‘Alhambra’ recreates the look and feel of the colourful mosaics of the Alhambra Palace in Spain as fine silk thread embroiders silk georgette, silk satin and jersey. Colours are inspired from a candy wrapper, range from vanilla cream to cassata orange. ‘Josephine’ is a studied collection of the empire-line—revised and updated.

The other three leitmotifs are ‘Tiara’, ‘Pastoral’ and ‘Temple’. Understated but high on technique, Vineet designs for the woman who straddles more than one world. Vineet launched IndjaPink in 2003. The label has established a firm presence in Europe, retailing in major cities across the continent.

Other budding designers like Sabina Singh (of ‘Ok Horn Please’ brand), Charu Parasher, Shyam Narayan Prasad, Anjali Kalia, Nikasha Tawadey, Samant Chauhan and Rachna also sit by the side. The store also has the latest collections by Basta and couturiers Shantanu and Nikhil.

Collage is at #21 Wood Street, The Horizon, Ashoknagar.