Back To The Origin: Designer Duo Shantanu & Nikhil Get Nostalgic About Their First Collection

These are some names that are definitive of the Indian fashion industry: Anita Dongre, Anamika Khanna, Raghavendra Rathore, Abu Jani, Sandeep Khosla and brothers Shantanu and Nikhil Mehra. You’ve seen them take a bow with their showstoppers on countless runways but we bet you can’t recall their maiden collections. In fact, we wondered if they… Continue reading Back To The Origin: Designer Duo Shantanu & Nikhil Get Nostalgic About Their First Collection

This Is How Gender-Fluid Fashion Has Made Its Way Back To The Mainstream

One of the biggest roles fashion plays in society is cultivating a broader social change, and that holds true for gender-fluid fashion. The social-construct breaking movement, which started off as a corrective to the rigid gender stereotyping that peaked in the ’50s, has time and time again mirrored a larger conversation about gender norms themselves.… Continue reading This Is How Gender-Fluid Fashion Has Made Its Way Back To The Mainstream

LMIFW SS’21: All the highlights from the phygital fashion week

With fashion weeks going digital, it came as no surprise that FDCI’s Lotus Makeup India Fashion Week was a virtual affair. What we were in complete awe of, though, was the way the designers took creating digital fashion films into their stride. The designers showcasing at the phygital (bridging the digital and physical world with… Continue reading LMIFW SS’21: All the highlights from the phygital fashion week

Shantanu & Nikhil celebrate 20 years in fashion with a new label

When it comes to drapes and silhouettes, no one does it like design maestros Shantanu & Nikhil. A glance of their pieces and you’ll know the couture designers are heavily inspired by vintage India. Their creative vision is all about mixing the traditional Indian aesthetic with contemporary sensibilities. Or to state it simply, their designs… Continue reading Shantanu & Nikhil celebrate 20 years in fashion with a new label

Shantanu and Nikhil’s latest collection celebrates millennials through fashion

What sets designer duo Shantanu and Nikhil Mehra in a league of their own is their penchant to celebrate nostalgia. Especially in today’s time and space. It’s the clever juxtaposition of glitz and street cred, sensuous draping and structured architectural lines that makes this a brand that is not afraid to take risks, and have… Continue reading Shantanu and Nikhil’s latest collection celebrates millennials through fashion

The new Shantanu & Nikhil flagship store is every minimalist’s delight

Almost a year in the making, designer duo Shantanu & Nikhil’s new flagship store in Bandra is a tale of two energies; it is minimal, yet full of whimsy and unexpected detail. Straight lines lead the eyes to interesting accessories, like a bright red telephone or a vintage typewriter. The greys and beiges of the… Continue reading The new Shantanu & Nikhil flagship store is every minimalist’s delight

Inside Shantanu & Nikhil’s deeply personal couture spectacle

Haute couture is intended to be fantasy wrought in fabric and handicraft. A more judicious observer might consider the whole exercise an elaborate waste of time: months spent with backs bent, toiling over details often so minute, that only the person wearing the garment is intimately aware of their presence.  Yet, in an assembly lined… Continue reading Inside Shantanu & Nikhil’s deeply personal couture spectacle

15 tastemakers on what you can expect from fashion in 2018

Slogan T-shirts, the end of real fur in luxury and women taking back the power: 2017 was packed with many highlights. So what’s in store for fashion in 2018? If you ask designer duo Shantanu & Nikhil, they believe women will continue to be bold and barrier-breaking in their sartorial sensibilities. Huemn creative director Pranav… Continue reading 15 tastemakers on what you can expect from fashion in 2018

The one fashion invention Shantanu & Nikhil wish they had created themselves

Launching their eponymous label in 1999, Shantanu and Nikhil Mehra have carved a niche for themselves in the Indian fashion scene with their unique craftsmanship, earning them fans in stars like Shilpa Shetty, Dia Mirza and more. The label is known for its unique androgynous approach towards clothing in both haute couture and ready to wear.… Continue reading The one fashion invention Shantanu & Nikhil wish they had created themselves

Inside Shantanu & Nikhil’s couture army

“Wherever there is upheaval — and that, by the way, is a constant now — you’ll find the armed forces helping citizens,” says designer Nikhil Mehra. The creative force behind the brand, Shantanu & Nikhil, has been feeling particularly patriotic lately, an emotion that’s guiding his label’s 180 degree shift in aesthetic. Shantanu Mehra, the business… Continue reading Inside Shantanu & Nikhil’s couture army

Designer duo Shantanu & Nikhil have mastered a balancing act

Sensible Simmi’s AIFW F/W ’16 report: day 1

Simmi Khanna, 28, is the most sensible girl in all of Safdarjung. She just cannot help it. Good sense is to Simmi what his handlebar is to Sunil Sethi – the two are inseparable. Now her friends have told Simmi that FDCI Amazon India Fashion Week is no place for someone such as herself, but… Continue reading Sensible Simmi’s AIFW F/W ’16 report: day 1

10 looks from Day 1 of AIFW we want to wear right now

Preview: Shantanu & Nikhil at BMW India Bridal Fashion Week

Shantanu & Nikhil’s collection for BMW India Bridal Week is inspired by mahals – their rounded elegant architecture, geometric patterns and earthy colour tones translated onto fluid silhouettes. Last year, their couture line was inspired by the Islamic architecture of Istanbul, so this time the brothers seem to be working in a similar vein except… Continue reading Preview: Shantanu & Nikhil at BMW India Bridal Fashion Week

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