Twenty years ago, Samant Chauhan introduced his debut collection grounded in the heritage of Rajasthan. At Lakmē Fashion Week 2026, his latest collection, Where My Home Is?, marked a return to those early influences, bringing two decades of design experience, travel, and material innovation back to the runway. Moving beyond mere nostalgia, the showcase paired Read More
Since its inception in 2012, HUEMN built its reputation on challenging standard fashion norms, by turning heavy, provocative themes into clothes you actually want to live in. Marking its return to Lakmē Fashion Week in partnership with FDCI, the label took that vision further, breaking down classic streetwear and rebuilding it with fresh energy and Read More
What can a process of decay teach us about creation? For Abhishek Chauhan, quite a lot. Presented at Lakmē Fashion Week 2026 in partnership with FDCI, ALCHEMY takes its cue from nature’s changing surfaces: oxidation, corrosion and the structures hidden beneath the naked eye. Translating these observations into sculptural forms and experimental constructions, Chauhan finds Read More
What if the most interesting part of a garment was the space it left behind? With The Space Between, ORCR takes this question to Lakmē Fashion Week 2026, presenting a collection that looks at clothing through the lens of form, proportion, and negative space. Presented in partnership with the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), Read More
There is a certain magic to the stories we grow up with. Passed down through generations, they introduce us to fantastical worlds populated by mythical creatures, enchanted forests, larger-than-life characters and lessons that stay with us long after the stories end. With FOLKLORE, presented at Lakmē Fashion Week in partnership with FDCI 2026, FARAK’s Rishab Read More
The Indian bazaar has never been one for following rules. Colours, textures, and unexpected combinations come together with an ease that feels entirely instinctive. It is this distinctly Indian approach to dressing that inspired Aikeyah’s BAZAAR, presented at Lakmē Fashion Week 2026. Rooted in the label’s signature idea of minimal maximalism, the collection found a Read More
At Lakmē Fashion Week 2026 in partnership with FDCI, Shahin Mannan presented I AM, a collection that questioned the identities we inherit and the expectations that shape who we become. Rooted in individuality and self-expression, the collection explored what it means to define yourself on your own terms, without feeling bound by convention. Moving between Read More
At Lakmē Fashion Week 2026, Mini Sondhi presented A Letter to My Father, a deeply personal collection rooted in grief. Moving through four stages – Chaos, Expression, Acceptance and Bloom – it traces an emotional journey through clothing, revealing a designer who often discovers what she feels through what she creates. For Sondhi, the process Read More
At Lakmē Fashion Week in partnership with FDCI, designer Anurag Gupta brought a deeply personal story to the runway with Artisanal, a collection inspired by Biskohar, his hometown in Uttar Pradesh. Beyond its exploration of unconventional materials and architectural silhouettes, the collection aimed to create sustainable livelihood opportunities for women in the community, addressing the Read More
In Kathakali, a single gesture or flash of colour speaks an entire visual language, and on the runway, that exact performance vocabulary was turned into something soft, fluid, and beautifully wearable. At Lakmē Fashion Week 2026 in partnership with FDCI, designer Pratima Pandey captured that exact theatrical energy with KATHA, the latest showcase from her Read More
Some inspirations come from a place, others from the stories we bring back with us. For Rahul Singh, Indi-Vita took shape in Florence, where the city’s architectural beauty, artistic heritage and unhurried way of life got him thinking about the connections between Indian craftsmanship and Italian aesthetics. Showcased at Lakmē Fashion Week in partnership with Read More
There are clothes that carry memories, and then there are clothes that become memories themselves. At Lakmē Fashion Week x FDCI, Indian menswear label Countrymade explored this very thought with Material Memory, its Spring Summer 2027 collection. First unveiled in Tokyo, the collection arrived on the Indian runway through a thoughtful interplay of craft, texture Read More
The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is back, and honestly, can we keep calm? The annual spectacle of supermodels, sky-high wings, and jaw-dropping lingerie just got a whole lot more exciting with Kylie Jenner making her debut. Add Adam Selman at the creative helm and $50 million worth of diamonds, and suddenly, everyone has their eyes Read More
If you grew up in India, chances are you’ve seen this collection before. Not on a runway, but in school corridors, old photo studios, neighbourhood shops and Bollywood posters. For SS27, Lovebirds took those blink-and-you-miss-them details and gave them a very fashionable second life at London Fashion Week. Founded by Amrita Khanna and Gursi Singh, Read More
New York Fashion Week always delivers its fair share of surprises, but this season, the interesting part wasn’t necessarily what was new. It was what designers did with things we’ve seen before. Sweaters moved from shoulders to waists, fringe gained unexpected texture, minis went full ’60s retro, and sheer skirts proved that layering is an Read More