The Bold dares to be beautiful was Manish Arora's show in the recent DElhi Couture week

Manish Arora, known for his eccentric, bold, and convention-defying women wear, brought to Delhi couture week yet another aspect of this happy mix of eclectism with the Indian flavor. The colors screamed of celebration, and smelt - Bold.

In the celestial walk of lights and mesmerizing the audience once again, the runway was shown staged with lights and the stream of polkas brightening up the whole hall. Keeping his ritual of whistles intact, this collection was something he incorporated for three years. One could see the warrior return, with furs, come alive redefining the contemporary women.

The warriors resembled the Amazon warriors and the crown embellished with gold showed a certain pride. Manish Arora in his definition of couture said, ' To me, couture is all about festivity in the Indian context and all the pieces are specially handmade'. He also added that the furs were legally obtained with permissions and were real. This couture week was definitely about colors, and gold is constantly making a big headway, this season in the runways. The fabrics used in this are natural fabrics and also has natural plastics too confirmed Arora. Although Manish Arora does not design wedding dress he confesses that he had done a few designs for family friends. To him, inspiration and idea come easy but the real difficulty is, ' the execution of inspiration' said Manish Arora.

If fashion could be predicted this season is all about the coming back of red, gold and the shimmering colours in gold.

United colors of India for Anju Modi in the Delhi couture week 2012

The golden shores beckoning, a fisherman gleaming in the beautiful sunset, and the music droned from the fish capital-- West Bengal, and with Rabindranath Tagore's poetry resounding, contemporary India, drawn through Anju Modi's eyes was an enchantment of the dream-like creation in Devi, at the recent Delhi Couture week.

Gripped with the nostalgia of Bengal, and the hues of red, and glimmering gold it was essentially the colours of India. The satins weave, rooted in the traditions of the country draped the models in the full bloom of its history.

The charcoal blacks with a hint of gold and red which was sparingly highlighted at the initial part became much louder as the ramp saw the splash of red, a colour with more shimmering gold. Deeply embedded into the intrinsic culture, the embellishments were somewhere a mix of both an Indo-Bohemian and Victorian.

The cuts grow louder and bolder in the lehengas and cholis, and the recurring theme of waves in the flaring skirts, the flowing drapes, the pallu falling off the shoulders had a charm and poise of an Indian woman shrouded in the mystery of silence. The muted appeal in each piece had drawn a certain light, an aura of mystic beauty around itself. Gasping for more the ultimate and the much awaited evening was when Madhuri Dixit Nene arrived and stopped the time for one moment in the timeless look of a bride gushing brightly in the sindoor. The eternal symbol of love and pride of Indian women framed in the time of the classic era of ever inspiring Devdas.

'Isn't the Indian women so loveable? It is the beauty adorned in the traditional weaving culture of India that this collection Devi is all about', said Modi.

Devi may refer to goddess but in this essence it is the beauty and the earthiness of the Indian women that is reflected in the collection. Priced 50,000 rupees and above this Couture collection could easily be a bride's dream of donning her D day.