With just a few days to go for the Commonwealth Games 2010, the last minute preparations and rehearsals have reached a feverish pitch. The official designer for the CWG opening and closing ceremony is Mumbai-based designer Ana Singh, and she confirmed that she has done the clothes for all the participants of the extravaganza.
According to sources, she has designed 11,000 costumes for the participants. When asked about the games, the designer says, “We have worked very hard for the costumes and I am hopeful that the CWG in the capital will be a success.”
Ana is a well-known style guru who has participated earlier at the Melbourne CWG, where she did around 500 costumes for the participants from India including Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Lara Dutta, Priyanka Chopra and the entire dance troupe of Shiamak Davar. Talking about her CWG 2006 experience, she says, “For the Melbourne CWG, we prepared costumes keeping in mind the ethnicity and cultural heritage of India. We designed around 500 garments that time.”
A source confirmed her participation in the Games and revealed, “She has done almost 95 per cent of the clothes for various shows during the CWG 2010. The theme is ‘Romanticising India’ and the inspiration is entirely Indian. It took almost four to five months for her to wrap up the consignment, and now truck loads of these clothes are being sent to the capital for final rehearsals.”