September 2026

Awigna has opened a new flagship store at The Corridors in Chhatarpur, Delhi, with Co-Founders Varsha and Rittu Agarwal

Dhananjay Singh’s Between Presence and Absence brings together bronze and copper wire sculptures spanning his practice, exploring the shifting boundaries between the human and natural worlds, presence and absence, growth and decay. Presented at Travancore Palace Art Gallery, New Delhi, the exhibition runs from 12 to 15 October 2026.

As the wedding and festive season approaches, ROSEROOM’s Softly, Strong looks beyond familiar bridal codes, bringing lace, corsetry, sculptural details and jewel tones into a couture wardrobe designed for the many celebrations surrounding a modern wedding.

Omar Mansoor’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection, The Living Loom, brings handwoven khaddar from Kamalia into contemporary fashion through modern silhouettes and Pakistani textile heritage.

When Tanisha returned to Delhi after completing her master’s in biotechnology at the University of Warwick in the UK, she brought back more than a degree. Having spent time in London using makeup products that combined skincare and color, she began looking more closely at what was available in India.

Jaume Plensa’s Beyond Silence, now on view at GRAY Chicago, brings together three distinct bodies of sculpture through a study of scale and material. The exhibition includes two 28-foot carved-wood reliefs, three seven-foot sculptures combining cast iron and granite, and a group of smaller bronze works from the Twilight series. It is Plensa’s tenth solo exhibition with the gallery and remains on view through December 19, 2026. The two monumental reliefs, Beyond Silence (Julia

Daniel Minter’s sculptural practice is rooted in the relationship between material, memory and ancestry. His work in Thresholds, currently on view at the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, places carved and assembled objects within a wider conversation about Black cultural memory, bringing contemporary work into dialogue with African objects from the museum’s collection. Running through December 19, 2026, Thresholds brings together Minter with Aisha Tandiwe Bell, Portia Cob

At Mariane Ibrahim in Chicago, Clotilde Jiménez explores family history, memory and inherited silence through painting, collage, drawing and sculpture.

Hew Locke’s The Wanderers is currently on view at P·P·O·W in New York, bringing together new sculptures, watercolours and altered share certificates shaped by the artist’s longstanding interest in the movement of people, objects, capital and ideas across oceans and time. The exhibition runs from September 9 to October 24, 2026. At the centre of the exhibition is a new group of vessels from Locke’s ongoing Odyssey series. Suspended from the gallery ceiling, the fleet includes

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s clinamen transforms floating porcelain bowls, moving water and chance into an ever-changing sound installation at Onassis Mandra in Athens.

The collection draws from embroidery traditions, Indian symbolism and motifs that have appeared across the designers’ work, while Dimple Kapadia returns as its muse, continuing a relationship with the house that dates to its earliest years.

Boucheron revisits its historic Lierre de Paris ivy motif in nine new jewels by Claire Choisne, crafted in white gold and diamonds for versatile wear.

Founded by interior designer Ashima Gulati, Etcetera emerged in 2021, during the pandemic, when a career spanning more than two decades in interior design unexpectedly led her toward handbag design.

Shweta of Style Essentials spoke to Chetan Kanani, co-founder and CEO of Alpino Health Foods, about the company's beginnings, the lessons of scaling and rebuilding after the warehouse fire, the thinking behind its product development, the importance of taste in health foods and where Alpino goes from here.

GRIMA for Hancocks brings together five unique jewels designed by Francesca Grima around exceptional gemstones selected by Hancocks London, combining architectural settings with old-cut diamonds, emeralds, French-cut diamonds, gold and platinum.

Elie Saab’s H&M collaboration brings the Lebanese designer’s familiar vocabulary of lace, draping, embellishment and eveningwear into a 55-piece collection that also includes tailoring, knitwear, coats and accessories. The collection will be launched on October 22, 2026, in select H&M stores and online. For more than four decades, Saab has built a fashion house around couture, bridalwear and evening dressing. Founded in Beirut, the label grew from the designer’s early work in

Payal Jain has spent close to three decades working in the space between heritage Indian textile craft and Western silhouette, a philosophy she's described as building "a western body with an Indian soul", and the Cynthia Dress, from her label's fall offering, reads as a fairly literal expression of that idea.

KYNKYNY presents Visual Disobedience, a group exhibition bringing together Yuvan Bothysathuvar, S. Ravi Shankar, Saravanan Parasuraman and Ganesh Selvaraj.

The Festive Collection pulls from Ajrakh and Rabari work out of Kutch, Kalamkari from the Deccan, Patola and mirror work from Gujarat, Bandhej, Banarasi brocade, and Sanganeri hand-block printing from Rajasthan, folding all of it into a single seasonal range rather than treating any one craft as the collection's centerpiece.

A closer look at the Victorinox Maverick Quartz, its 43mm case, sapphire crystal, 100m water resistance and Swiss quartz movement, and what the design says about the brand.