“I was
wondering why the thorns of life had to accompany life’s beauty,” says Verma,
while speaking to Herald regarding her theme on a rose’s rarest essence, which
lives in its thorns.
Explaining
further, the designer who is among the few in the country to touch a cord with
suffering of women in the country, stated: “The relationship of a rose and a
thorn, traversing a line between sweetness, beauty, and love, and the pangs of
hardship and unexpected loss and pain always seem to counterbalance the
fragrance of the rose.”
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Verma’s
fashion collection was widely appreciated and acknowledged at the fashion week.
“Fashion is not simply a change of styles of dress and adornment, but rather a
systematic, structured and deliberate pattern of style change,” she said.
This was
the first time Verma played with this theme and states the relationship of a
rose and thorns is juxtaposed.
“A rose
depicted as a symbol of love, beauty and happiness which is the essence in a
woman’s life is basically accompanied with injustice, pain and struggle which
depict thorns and is everlasting and perpetual,” she said.
“To
acquire a rose, we have to walk the path of the thorns that are a part of the
growth of the rose. Similarly, to achieve the joy and gladness of her life, a
woman has to witness pain and sacrifice which is a reality. She loses herself
but gains the essence which is worthy of all the loss.”
“The
hardships are like the piercings of the thorns perpetually imbibed but the
closure/conclusion is the blooming happiness of the roses which brings
fragrance to her life.”
