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

The last show of the Blenders Pride Fashion Tour did not take place inside a hall, or even on land. It unfolded on the Hooghly, with a barge anchored mid-river and the Howrah Bridge watching from behind, unchanged and unmoved. In that setting, Anamika Khanna presented an AK|OK collection that did not ask to be admired as craft in the traditional sense, but as something in the process of becoming. From the start, it was clear this was not about preserving technique in its fami

PAYAL KHANDWALA ends the year by returning to the language that has defined the label from the beginning—clarity of form, a preference for sculptural silhouettes, and fabrics that carry depth without excess. The new capsule, released this December, focuses on moments that feel slow, personal, and unforced. It is built around the idea of dressing for oneself rather than for spectacle. The collection reflects the brand’s understanding of the modern woman, the one Payal Khandwal

For a lot of people, getting dressed for the holidays is a big deal. We often look for things that are bright, detailed, and create a big...