Designer Focused

Rahul Mishra at Paris Couture Week 2024
Designer Collection, Designer Focused, Events, Fashion, Paris Fashion Week, Runway Events

Rahul Mishra at Paris Fashion Week: Bringing the Aura to Life

Have you ever wondered what your aura looks like? The human form is so complex that we usually don’t look beyond the physical. However, it is our energies that define us. Rahul Mishra encapsulates this concept through his latest collection for Paris Couture Week 2024, which is seeped with spiritualism, mythology, and a love for Read More

Designer Anand Bhushan
Designer Focused, Designer Interviews, Fashion, Interview, Jan / Feb / Mar 2023, Magazine

The Return to Beauty

Embrace colours and the spirit of celebrations as Hope rewrites the fashion book this new year. Designer Anand Bhushan decodes the perfect summer look as he tells us how the relaxed look of the pandemic is making way for a more structured look, a nod to lives and wardrobes being reorganised. The award- winning Delhi-based Read More

Jewellery
Designer Focused, Designer Interviews, Fashion, Interview, Jan / Feb / Mar 2023, Jewellery, Magazine

Bespoke Gems

The world of Narayan Jewellers is filled with wonders of ruby red and emerald green, layered necklaces, chokers, jhumkas, and more. Step inside to experience the rare brilliance. Ketan Chokshi, jewellery designer and MD, Narayan Jewellers, shares sparkling wisdom on what constitutes the novelty of demand in a post-pandemic world, how a new generation of Read More

Designer Focused, Designer Interviews, Fashion, Interview, Jan / Feb / Mar 2023, Magazine

A Playful Textiles Playbook

As Ekaya Banaras clocks in a decade in the handwoven couture trail of India and beyond, Palak Shah unearths some gems from her priceless brand book. Meet Palak Shah, the new-age disruptor who took over the challenge of giving a new voice and identity to an already well-established family textile business. The result? Ten years Read More

Milan Fashion Week - Dhruv Kapoor Designer
Designer Collection, Designer Focused, Events, Fashion, Runway Events

Dhruv Kapoor at Milan Fashion Week 2024

If understated charm was a knack, Dhruv Kapoor surely knows how to ace it. He made the country proud by being the first Indian menswear designer to attend Milan Fashion Week in June 2022 and has made a dynamic comeback this year with his Spring/Summer ’25 collection. The creations were a perfect amalgamation of fearless Read More

Bridal Designers
Bridal, Designer Focused, Fashion, Studio, wedding

Top 5 Bridal Designers You Can’t Miss This Wedding Season

As wedding season approaches, the quest for the perfect attire becomes paramount for brides, bridesmaids, and guests alike. Renowned for their remarkable work, inventiveness, and ability to blend traditional and modern styles, leading Indian labels offer stunning collections that promise to leave a lasting impression. Whether aiming for a classic or a new-age look, Indian Read More

Designer Focused, Designer Interviews, Fashion, Indian Textiles, Interview, Jan / Feb / Mar 2023, Magazine

Threads of Luminescence

Handwoven textile label Swati & Sunaina, the brainchild of co-founders, Swati Agarwal and Sunaina Jalan, is a luminescent tale of enlightening innovations on the loom. Here, Agarwal tells us about the rivers of India, reviving forgotten weaves, radiant drapes and more. The enchanting pure gold zari, indigenous silks and a treasure-trove of techniques that treat Read More

Jenjum Gadi
Designer Focused, Fashion, Indian Fashion, Jan / Feb / Mar 2023, Magazine

Northeast, A New Spin

A new landscape of design innovations is crafting a promising story out of indigenous weaves, cultural contexts and sustainable movements. Here’s a deep dive into some of the aspects of happy disruptions. From being home to Hornbill and Ziro and several other coveted music festivals to housing an enviable tradition of textiles, to nurturing poetic Read More

The sovereingnty of spring
Apr / May / June 2023, Designer Focused, Fashion, Magazine

The Sovereignty of Spring

Diving into the handmade design-scape of Abu Sandeep’s distinctive lines of ‘Asal’ and ‘Mard’, which painted the theme of the luxury fashion house’s Spring-Summer 2023 showcase “The Majesty of Spring”, in aid of CPAA. Don’t miss the deets of the dreamy and modernist ensembles that paid an ode to hope and beauty. When longtime collaborators Read More

Bauble Mania
Apr / May / June 2023, Designer Focused, Designer Interviews, Fashion, Interview, Jewellery, Magazine

Bauble Mania

Known to craft bespoke jewels for her fashion-savvy clientele, Prerna Rajpal of Amaris by Prerna Rajpal curates a vacay-ready jewellery kit. Delhi-based jewellery designer Prerna Rajpal decodes some of the jewellery colours, shapes, and silhouettes that can create a soothing rage at summertime celebrations. From making a case for freshwater pearls to rooting for an Read More

Jewellery
Apr / May / June 2023, Designer Focused, Fashion, Jewellery, Magazine

Shimmer Lite for Summers

With couture-esque visual appeal, elevated creativity and a free-spirited vibe, costume jewellery is increasingly gaining favour among the Instagram generation of brides, who prefer personalised and unique jewellery pieces. “I had an exciting experience when I met a bride-to-be, who wanted to wear her mother’s wedding jewellery and a Kanjeevaram sari. She wanted to give Read More

Jayanti Reddy Blue Sharara
Apr / May / June 2023, Designer Focused, Designer Interviews, Fashion, Interview, Magazine

Not a Wallflower Woman

With her latest campaign marking her first-ever association with ‘the magnificent Roman high jeweller’, Bvlgari, Jayanti Reddy elevates the ethos of the eclectic, unapologetic and free-spirited wearer, while embracing pastels and recasting ornate silver work in a summer-friendly avatar. In a first-of-its-kind association, global high-jewellery design house Bvlgari and Indian couturier Jayanti Reddy came together. Read More

Paris Haute Couture
Apr / May / June 2023, Designer Collection, Designer Focused, Fashion, Magazine

A Couturier’s Guide to Galaxy

A trip to “Interstellar-twist”-Rahul Mishra’s Parisian odyssey-as the couturier recently showcased ‘Cosmos’ on the opening day of Paris Haute Couture Week Spring-Summer 2023. Aboard the maximalist spaceship harbouring alternate worlds of fantastical art and clinical precision, butterflies and business, rootedness and escape. The butterfly has been a recurring motif in the surrealistic botanical world of Read More

House of Hoorilal
Designer Focused, Designer Interviews, Fashion, Interview, Jul / Aug / Sept 2023, Magazine

Crown Jewels

This season add a little sunshine and sparklers in Rubies and Diamonds supremely crafted from the House of Hazoorilal by Sandeep Narang. Housing the most extensive fine jewellery repertoire, Hazoorilal By Sandeep Narang/Hazoorilal Jewellers carries a lineage of over 71 years, setting a benchmark in the highest quality and design aesthetics of diamond, polki and Read More