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Organised jointly by DCT Model Management, Spot’less Fashion Magazine, and Ehsaas Charitable Trust, the high-octane “Glam Look” competition at Kank Couture provided grassroots creative artists and models a dignified launchpad into India’s fashion mainstream.
Organised jointly by Ehsaas Charitable Trust, Spot’less Fashion Magazine, and DCT Model Management at Arya Auditorium, the Season-5 Grand Finale crowned Vedika (Miss), Monica Chhabra (Mrs.), and Rajen Sharma (Mr.) following rigorous runway, presentation, and jury Q&A rounds.
At Manish Malhotra's Mijwan 2026 fashion show in Mumbai, Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal walked as showstoppers in a presentation that placed Chikankari craftsmanship, rural artisan empowerment and modern Indian occasionwear in sharp focus. The evening framed hand embroidery not as ornament alone, but as a cultural and economic force with renewed relevance in India's luxury market.
In Mumbai, Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla marked four decades of shaping India's couture vocabulary through an uncompromising devotion to mirrorwork, chikankari and decorative excess rendered with precision. Their anniversary presentation reaffirmed the house's place at the intersection of craft preservation, celebrity culture and luxury fashion's appetite for handwork-led spectacle.
School Education Principal Secretary J. Shyamala Rao on Saturday visited government schools in Edupugallu village of Krishna district, where he interacted with students, observed classroom resources and briefly taught Mathematics himself. He pressed teachers to give individual attention to children, adopt simple teaching methods and focus on improving learning outcomes as the state steps up its school education push.
Bridging runway glamour with social impact, designer Salman Ansari paired athletic vitality with couture tailoring, evaluated by Times Fresh Face icons and industry veterans at Arya Auditorium.
In Mumbai, Chanakya School of Craft is marking four decades of hand-embroidery practice that has quietly shaped the surfaces of Parisian haute couture. The milestone underscores a rare continuity of artisanal labour, where Indian craftsmanship remains embedded in the most exacting ateliers of Europe. As luxury houses seek deeper provenance and cultural specificity, Chanakya's work stands as both a technical resource and a statement of soft power: a Mumbai-based craft institution whose stitches travel from Indian hands to the Paris runway.
On the Lido, the Venice Film Festival's red carpet once again served as couture's most exacting public stage, where precision tailoring and theatrical silhouette met the glare of international cinema. This year, Chanel, Schiaparelli and Armani Privé delivered a study in disciplined glamour, each house translating its own codes into gowns that felt both ceremonial and contemporary.
Tarun Tahiliani brought India Couture Week to a close in New Delhi with a collection that treated drape as architecture and corsetry as engineering, balancing ceremonial grandeur with a distinctly contemporary sense of ease. The finale underscored the designer's enduring command of Indian craft, while pointing toward a more fluid, commercially adaptable vocabulary for modern occasion wear.
At India Couture Week in New Delhi, Rahul Mishra unveiled 'Cosmic Bloom', a collection that fused botanical imagination with architectural couture through intricate 3D embroidery and a workforce of 1,500 artisans. The show reaffirmed Mishra's position as one of India's most exacting luxury voices, translating craft into a modern language of volume, luminosity and quiet grandeur.
At India Couture Week in New Delhi, Gaurav Gupta staged a high-concept return to the language of volume, velocity and cosmic drama with Zero Gravity, a collection that fused metallic pleats, infinity curves and engineered drape into a singular couture proposition. The show underscored Gupta's continued influence on India's luxury fashion narrative, where technique, spectacle and export-ready fantasy increasingly converge.
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