Gypsy Fashion

Giorgio Armani

Gypsy fashion has influenced designers such as Pria Kataria, Neeta Lulla, Vicky Martin Berrocal, Malini Ramani. Robert Cavelli, Anna Sui and especially Giorgio Armani’s 2008 fall collection.

Giorgio Armani

What makes the gypsy style endure in fashion?

Vicky Martin Berrocal

Whether it is layered skirts worn over leggings gathered on the bottom,

Neeta Lulla

sequined shawls draped over ruffles and lace,

Anna Sui

velvet and silk tunics under denim mirror embroidered boleros and cholis, head topped with feathered turbans,

Pria Kataria

with the jingle jangle of gold mixed with silver bangles, multi colored beads

Malini Ramani

and bells stringed with rope anklets

with tassels worn over boots…elements of Gypsy fashion is like the Gypsy migration, globally far reaching .

Malini Ramani

The appeal of this free spirited style in fashion signifies the romantic nomad,

Robert Cavelli

the bohemian movement and the spill over from being displaced from one’s birthplace yet travelling wearing the past heritage mixed with current geographical trends.

Robert Cavelli

Gypsies are the Roma, who originated from India and migrated to eastern Europe roughly a 1000 years ago.

Pria Kataria

Linguistic and genetic evidence marks the Romanies to have originated possibly from the Indian state of Rajasthan

Pria Kataria

then going northwest from the Punjab region then migrating to Europe possibly via Iran.

Pria Kataria

Perhaps through the glamour in the fashion designer’s aesthetic eye popularizing the Gypsy flair,

Malini Ramani

bopa

will some day lessen the discrimination that has been targeted to the Roma ethnic minority communities. Here are some pictures of actual Gypsies.The Kalbeliya and Bopa Women are the Gypsy Queens of India’s Rajasthan Desert. The Bopa are talented musicians and singers while the Kalbeliya are known as dancers and snake charmers.