Fashion

After seven years away from the Met Gala, Lena Dunham returned on the host committee in a custom red Valentino by Alessandro Michele that took its inspiration not from a painting's narrative or its composition but from a single drop of blood on a painted neck. Here is everything behind the look.

When Venus Williams said on the morning of May 4 that co-chairing the Met Gala felt "really full circle," she was not being vague. By the time she arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that evening in a Swarovski crystal mesh gown built from a painting of herself that hangs in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the full circle she was describing had become literal.

Diya Mehta Jatia is a fashion consultant and stylist whose professional practice is built around shaping visual identity and guiding design direction for high-end fashion narratives. She works behind the scenes, which is precisely why her choices carry a particular weight.

Gwendoline Christie, best known globally for playing Brienne of Tarth in HBO's Game of Thrones, has been thinking about masks for a long time. She has been thinking about height, femininity, the versions of ourselves we perform for the world, and the gap between the face we show and the one we feel we have.

Beyoncé arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the evening of May 4, 2026, wearing her own skeleton. Not a reference to one, not a gothic motif lifted from fashion history and applied across a dress, but an anatomically precise rendering of the human body's bone structure, built in crystal over nude mesh and placed directly over the body it was mapping. She had not attended the Met Gala since 2016. This is what ten years of absence looks like when it ends.

Every detail of Isha Ambani's Met Gala 2026 look, from the gold-woven Gaurav Gupta sari painted by a National Award-winning Pichwai master to the 1,800-carat blouse envisioned by Nita Ambani and built from the family's jewelry archive, the Nizam's sarpech, and the bronze mango by Subodh Gupta, the only artist whose work appeared on two separate Met Gala looks on the same night.

The Hyderabad philanthropist returned to the Met Gala with a Manish Malhotra creation rooted in Machilipatnam Kalamkari, Telangana's cultural symbols, and a $15 million tanzanite from her own collection. Here is every detail.

Manish Malhotra has dressed Bollywood royalty, Hollywood names, actual royalty, and some of the most photographed women in the world. For 35 years he has been the person standing behind the camera, behind the fitting room door, behind the star on the red carpet. At Met Gala 2026, for the first time on fashion's biggest stage, he stepped in front.

The first Indian film director to attend the Met Gala arrived not trying to explain India, but simply feeling like himself. Here is the full story of the cape that made that possible.

Ananya Birla’s Met Gala 2026: Inside the Subodh Gupta Steel Mask That Made Her Debut Unforgettable

From the stirrups of Persian cavalry to the mirrored floors of Versailles, from Roger Vivier's steel rod to the runways of contemporary menswear — the high heel has never really been about the shoe. It has always, without exception, been about power, and who gets to wear it.

Prada has spent over a decade running its Made In project, identifying master craftspeople across the world and building contemporary collections around their techniques, and the latest chapter lands in India with a limited-edition sandal collection inspired by the Kolhapuri Chappal, manufactured by skilled artisans from the Maharashtra and Karnataka regions, where this GI-tagged craft has been made by hand for generations; it is now available in 40 selected Prada stores glob

Something is changing in the wardrobes of India's most discerning dressers. Walk into the right room in Mumbai, Delhi or Bangalore today and you will notice it not by what people are wearing but by what they are not wearing. The monograms are quieter. The logos are smaller. The statements, if they exist at all, are made in the quality of the fabric, the precision of the cut and the knowledge required to recognize what you are looking at. India's luxury fashion consumer is gro

There is a moment most people who care about clothes eventually arrive at. It usually happens while standing in front of a wardrobe full of things and feeling like there is nothing to wear. The problem is almost never quantity. It is almost always quality — or rather, the absence of a philosophy behind what was bought and why. Building a luxury wardrobe is not about spending more. It is about spending with intention. It is the difference between accumulating and curating. Bet

Michael Kors has opened a new flagship store at Beijing China World, one of the Chinese capital's most prominent retail destinations. The 3,500-square-foot store introduces the brand's latest global retail concept to Asia and debuts the world's first Jet Set Lounge café — a format previously seen in Michael Kors flagships in New York and London but never before in Asia and never before with a café component. The Store The Beijing flagship spans 3,500 square feet and is design

CaratLane, India's leading omnichannel fine jewellery brand, has opened its second US store in Frisco, Texas, within the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The 1,200-square-foot boutique is the brand's second American location after its debut store in New Jersey and carries more than 2,000 designs in natural diamonds and silver diamond jewellery, with prices starting at 49 US dollars. The Store and What It Carries The Frisco boutique stocks a curated assortment specifically selecte

Fashion trends in 2026 are being shaped by more than runway shows. From the slowdown of fast fashion to the quiet rise of AI in design, the rules of style are changing at a structural level — and knowing what's ahead gives you an edge in building a wardrobe that actually works. Whether you're a conscious consumer looking to invest in fewer, better pieces, or someone who loves self-expression and statement looks, this guide breaks down the eight biggest style shifts defining 2

Indriya, Aditya Birla Jewellery, and designer Amit Aggarwal took the runway at Lakmē Fashion Week X FDCI on March 21st in Mumbai with Orizon, a collaboration that brought sculptural fashion and Polki jewellery into a single, unified presentation. The show was built around one idea: that heritage does not constrain but equips, and that tradition is most powerful when it is treated as a living language rather than a fixed reference. Orizon unfolds as a journey from shadow to li

Aisha Rao showed her Spring Summer 2026 collection Inter-Hana on March 21st at Lakmē Fashion Week x FDCI in Mumbai, with 360 ONE as the presenting sponsor. The Hyderabad-based designer has built a consistent reputation for collections where the making process is as deliberate as the finished garment, and Inter-Hana continued that line of thinking with a collection rooted in cultural dialogue, in-house material development and a specific artistic reference that ran through eve

Anamika Khanna had the last word on Day 1. Closing the opening evening of Lakmē Fashion Week in partnership with FDCI on March 20th in Mumbai, her AK|OK collection brought the night to an end with a runway that felt considered, personal, and very much its own thing. The starting point for the collection was an idea rather than a trend: the quiet beauty of something that feels out of place. A flower growing where it does not belong. From that image, Khanna built a collection w