As we step into 2026, sartorial aesthetics take a quiet detour from the usual. Indian summers that are often synonymous with vivid hues and expressive prints take a back seat as woven linens, airy silhouettes and a calm, muted colour palette defiantly take centre stage this season. Turn the pages for a visual symphony between Read More
Take the clock back to the ’90s and what emerges is a harmonised chaos of prints. Whether it was the bedsheet and pillow covers, your dining table linen, or a peek into your mother’s wardrobe, clashing patterns coexisted in a visual symphony. Loud florals collided with geometrics, stripes lived alongside dainty paisleys – a fearless Read More
In an age of excess, where overconsumption fuels endless creation, it takes something truly compelling to arrest the eye. As trends dictate not just what we wear, but how we think and feel, personal style – the instinctive, experimental kind that once thrived beyond rules – has quietly slipped into obscurity. After years of allegiance Read More
Run clubs, coffee raves, Pilates-and-matcha parties, spinning classes on a yacht, yoga on the beach – the fitness landscape today is nothing like it has ever been before. Community workout sessions are now replacing late night hours at the club, becoming a part of one’s daily routine. What began as a small post-pandemic shift has Read More
For years, skincare has revolved around what could be seen immediately – brighter complexion, fine lines softened, pigmentation corrected, fewer marks left behind after a breakout. The industry trained us to look at skin almost entirely through the lens of correction. Fix the visible problem and move on. But increasingly, beauty is beginning to borrow Read More
At Lakmē Fashion Week this season, Payal Pratap presented Memories Pressed in Time, created in collaboration with R|Elan, marking several firsts for the designer. It was her first showing in Mumbai, her first time working with denim as a primary fabric, and also her first menswear collection. And yet, the collection felt true to the Read More
In Bobo Calcutta’s world, fashion resists definition. Instead, it exists as an instinctive confluence of all things close to art and identity. Founded by Ayushman Mitra, the art-laden label has steadily carved a language that is as emotional as it is visual, rooted in memory, mythology, and the quiet chaos of its namesake city. There Read More
At Lakmē Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2026, fashion resisted its own instinct for spectacle. There was no urgency to provoke and no desire to overwhelm the runway. Instead, the ramp recalibrated toward a more deliberate expression of style where fashion felt more natural, grounded, and real – like something that belongs in our everyday lives rather Read More
In an industry that rarely pauses for breath, where everything seems to arrive already halfway to obsolescence, Florian Hurel has chosen a slower, more exacting rhythm. His world is built on steadiness and on showing up. Not out of reluctance, but purely out of care. The sort of care that comes from returning, again and Read More
There’s something oddly familiar about a place you’ve never been to. Maybe it’s a reel you watched at 1 am. Maybe it’s a travel vlog paused halfway through because the colours looked too good to scroll past. Or maybe it’s just how we travel now, through screens first, reality later. For Jubinav, that feeling became Read More
Minimalism has been the theme over the past couple of seasons, and we all thought that glitter took a back seat. However, the tides have turned. Sparkle has already been around for years – across subcultures, music scenes, and coming-of-age movies – long before it made its way back into the mainstream, thanks to Euphoria. Read More
Although the ocean remains one of the most unexplored places on the planet, what we do know of its vastness is the quiet beauty it conceals beneath the surface. Rohit Gandhi + Rahul Khanna capture one evocative facet of this mystery in their latest couture collection, Abyssal. On what sparked the concept of the collection, Read More
A Delhi boy. A boarding school. A stage.And everything he unlearned along the way. There’s a certain expectation we place on men as they grow, that they sharpen, steady, perhaps even shed the parts of themselves that feel too soft, too playful, too unguarded. That somewhere along the way, the boy must make way for Read More
On belonging, instinct, and the discernment of choosing differently, Rasika Dugal reflects on finding her way into acting, building a body of work without a formula, and learning to stay with uncertainty. The first time I met Rasika Dugal, it was not on a set or a stage, but at her Bandra home on a Read More
It is fair to say, in India, the concept of having a themed decor plan is rather new. For decades, most of what we have been seeing includes strings of bright marigolds or a few rose arrangements here and there. However, modern weddings are changing the traditional moodboard into something more personal, global and invigorating. Read More
