Emerging trends, silhouettes and designers from Lakme Fashion Week 2024

Emerging trends, silhouettes and designers from Lakme Fashion Week 2024

As Mumbai’s fashion commentators, couturiers and creators came together last week at Lakme Fashion Week X FDCI, we saw stalwarts like Anamika Khanna revive tribal motifs, Rajesh Pratap Singh partner with an Argentinian polo brand, and JJ Valaya use royal travel fables as a narrative to work with. We also loved the sartorial elegance of […]

Continue Reading
Designer Viraj Khanna crafts an ari, zardosi embroidered jacket for Puma

Designer Viraj Khanna crafts an ari, zardosi embroidered jacket for Puma

The bomber jacket designed for Puma | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Sportswear brand Puma’s logo gets an Indian makeover with varied embroidered textile cut-outs, courtesy a collaboration with artist-designer Viraj Khanna, son of noted Indian designer Anamika Khanna and brand AK-OK The brand’s bomber jacket — designed exclusively for its Gen Z brand ambassador, Shanaya […]

Continue Reading
NMACC showcase: From beetle wings to chintz, India’s gift to global fashion

NMACC showcase: From beetle wings to chintz, India’s gift to global fashion

A little over 150 years ago, over 30,000 hand cut and mounted samples of Indian textiles were painstakingly organised into an album series to educate and inspire commercial and design industries in India and Britain. Its creator, John Forbes Watson, called them ‘trade museums’. Watson would have been pleased to walk around the ‘India in […]

Continue Reading