Last week, the best in the business of Indian fashion showcased their newly designed couture collections at the FDCI India Couture Week. Perfectly timed for the upcoming wedding seasons, the designers unleashed the best from their bridal arsenals. Catering to the needs of the new-age modern bride, each fashion house took a nuanced stance when… Continue reading 10 Trends Spotted At The FDCI India Couture Week 2021 Digital Edition
Paris Haute Couture Week was back with its in-person action (with a few fashion films as exceptions). The high-heeled energy on the cobbled streets of the capital of France resurged as couturiers welcomed their seasonal attendees to wear and witness their latest creations. Exhibitions, elegant soirees, small-scale concerts (hello, Katy Perry for Louis Vuitton) filled… Continue reading 5 Trends Spotted During Paris Couture Week Fall 2021
Weddings in India showcase a mixed-pot of culture, traditions and heritage that comes from its various regions. Unlike other countries, it’s not just about the two individuals coming together; it’s an emotional family affair. Hence, the grandiose of the various processions make up for a giant profitable industry. Over the last two years, the wedding… Continue reading The Indian Bridal Industry Has Survived, But How Will It Now Thrive?
Even after several successful showcases at the Paris Fashion Week over the years, you can hear the palpable nerves in Rahul Mishra’s voice as he talks about his latest couture collection at the Haute Couture Week. While it’s surreal to watch the end result unfold at a show in all its fashionable glory, it’s a… Continue reading Rahul Mishra’s Fall Couture Collection Beautifully Depicts The 5 Elements Of Nature
Ace designer Rahul Mishra has always narrated the story of nature through his couture. As a designer who has believed in designing for a cause, Mishra took us on a philosophical journey of life and growth for his Spring Summer 2021 collection titled The Dawn, which was unveiled at Paris Fashion Week virtually. View… Continue reading Rahul Mishra Talks To ELLE About His SS’21 Couture Collection
One morning in February this year, Delhi-based internationally acclaimed designer, Rahul Mishra noticed a genda (marigold in Hindi) flower growing amidst a large and luscious bougainvillea pot; his gardener had—in Mishra’s own words—“humbly potted the marigold with it”—and the designer was struck by this amazing contrast—in shape, colour and texture—of flowers, and by how the… Continue reading Nature and architecture influenced Rahul Mishra and Zoya’s collaboration for Paris Fashion Week
Hidden away in a narrow alley in central Paris, Garage LÜbeck’s unpretentious exteriors could not have revealed the beauty it held inside during the Haute Couture Week in Paris last month. A secret garden had taken shape in the form of an exhibition that showcased 18 looks by designer Rahul Mishra. Titled Metropolis Part 1,… Continue reading This is what inspired Rahul Mishra’s first international couture collection
Iris Apfel has just come up for air after the circus—as some would call it—that is New York Fashion Week. Apfel, a Fashion Week veteran who just turned 96, has diminishing interest in the big top. “It’s hideous. It’s so difficult to get anywhere on time,” she says. She barely had any time for the… Continue reading Living fashion legend Iris Apfel in her first-ever Indian fashion shoot
In 2011, when Rahul Mishra began experimenting with embroidery for the first time, he began to work with craftsmen in Mumbai’s notoriously cramped slums. “Initially, they used to come to my studio, I never had to see their living spaces,” he recalls. But one chance visit to the slums — because the designer needed to… Continue reading How designer Rahul Mishra is saving India’s craftsmen from city slums and sending them back home
If you’re considering a career in fashion design, this might brighten up your day. With Italy’s premier fashion and design school Istituto Marangoni setting up base in Mumbai, and fashion designer Raghavendra Rathore launching his very own Gurukul School of Design in Jaipur, India is slowly raising the bar for fashion education. We chatted with… Continue reading 2 star-studded fashion design schools are opening in India
Blame it on the capital’s old-world charm or its love for opulence, but Delhi’s reputation as a dependable market for designers is in no immediate danger. Just this month, Rahul Mishra opened the doors to his Parisian-inspired flagship store in Delhi’s Mehrauli neighbourhood. Now, Shivan & Narresh and Pankaj & Nidhi have joined the bandwagon,… Continue reading 3 of our favourite designers just opened new stores in Delhi
Rahul Mishra has always been obsessed with 3D architecture. The disciple of M.C. Escher has a yen for dazzling the eye with mathematically precise tesselation, deconstructing entire worlds within a few metres of fabric. On the surface of it, his most recent couture presentation was relatively simple, inspired by Byzantine architecture. But Rahul insists you… Continue reading Rahul Mishra: “I don’t want to make heirlooms, I want my clothes to be worn”
When Rahul Mishra first described the vision behind his first flagship store, it was atypically crisp. “A white cube,” he told me. “I’m heavily influenced by the way stores are designed in Paris, clean walls and lots of light filling the open space, so that all the attention goes to the garments.” It’s definitely a… Continue reading Exclusive: First look inside Rahul Mishra’s stunning Delhi store
THE INSPIRATIONThe handiwork on Mishra’s spring line is three-dimensional, but he thinks of it as four-dimensional: “You know Interstellar, where they interpret the fourth dimension, the singularity, as love? This is how we tried to interpret the love for the craftsmanship and the dedication of the team that has made this line.” THE SHAPESMishra’s Paris… Continue reading Rahul Mishra returned to Paris Fashion Week
Rahul Mishra’s collection for Amazon India Couture Week 2015 – his first – is called “The Tree of Life,” in reference not only to the stem and petal embroidery that travelled down the length of the clothes, but to the network of local craftspeople who helped make his designs a reality. Mishra presented hybrid silhouettes… Continue reading ELLE review: Rahul Mishra at Amazon India Couture Week 2015
Designer Rahul Mishra, who famously brought the International Woolmark Prize 2014 home, is ready to showcase his couture line at the forthcoming Amazon India Couture Week 2015. For his fall/winter line, Tree Of Life, Mishra is strongly influenced by nature. (It reminds you of his award-winning line, The Lotus Effect, in some ways.) “Tree Of… Continue reading Exclusive: What to expect from Rahul Mishra’s couture line
Rahul Mishra brings his exquisite work to Indelust. The designer is known for merging traditional Indian textiles and embroideries with modern day silhouettes. Indelust’s Sana Rezwan kept the edit simple and refers to them as “investment pieces”. Some styles are pulled straight off the runway, while others have been modified for the Indelust shopper. Either way,… Continue reading Rahul Mishra now available on Indelust
Amazon India Fashion Week delivered stellar shows day after day, and ended with one star-studded night. They gathered some of India’s best designers — 25 of them, to mark 25 years of the Fashion Design Council of India — and put the focus on Indian crafts for the grand finale. It was broken into Western, Indian and… Continue reading 25 years of FDCI, and 25 designers at the grand finale
