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Rahul Mishra Opens Hyundai India Couture Week 2025 With a Moonlit Ode to Love
If “Satrangi Re” from Mani Ratnam’s Dil Se (1998) paints love in seven colours through Gulzar’s lyrics, then Rahul Mishra’s Becoming Love wears them.
Rahul Mishra’s stunning collection at the Hyundai India Couture Week 2025FDCI
Rahul Mishra opened Day 1 of Hyundai India Couture Week 2025 in association with Reliance brands, an initiative of FDCI, with his collection Becoming Love. Fresh from showing at Paris Couture Week, Mishra brought the same ambition back home. He explored the seven stages of love as told in Sufi thought, starting with the first pull of attraction, then infatuation, surrender, reverence, devotion, and obsession, before ending in the final stage where the self dissolves completely.
Rahul Mishra on Day 1 of the Hyundai India Couture Week 2025FDCI
The set was moonlit with craters, with moving light casters and galaxy beams that made the runway feel like a slice of the night sky.
Tamannaah Bhatia turned showstopper for Rahul Mishra ) at the Hyundai India Couture Week 2025 FDCI
Tamannaah Bhatia walked for Rahul Mishra as his muse, who carried this idea of how love grows. “For me, Becoming Love felt like wearing beautiful sculptures that transition so fluidly. Rahul does it every time, the way the collection moves from one stage of love to the next, each garment flowing seamlessly into the next stage. It’s a beautiful narrative of love shown visually through the garments,” Bhatia told Manifest.
Rahul Mishra on Day 1 of the Hyundai India Couture Week 2025FDCI
Mishra mapped that arc onto clothes alive with early looks of softened vivid floral patterns, molten golds and calm whites. As each look came down the runway, the mood turned heavier. The embroidery thickened, colours sank deeper, and the shapes moved from airy drapes to bold, sculpted forms, almost like how love gathers weight and can swell until it fills every corner of you.
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Rahul Mishra takes inspiration from Gustav Klimt’s famous painting The Kiss, and brings romance into his own world through embroidery made by village ateliers across India.
He used traditional techniques like aari, zardozi, naqshi, dabka and fareesha, but gives them a fresh look. Each piece is built on silk organza, tulle, velvet or satin, covered in resham threads, beads, freshwater pearls, kundan, salli and sequins that add depth and light to every layer.
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A big signal this season was Mishra’s push for florals in menswear. Jackets were covered in silver thread and beads that brought nature to life on fabric. Some dresses opened out into sculptural veils of hand-embroidered flowers.
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Presented by the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), Hyundai India Couture Week 2025, held in association with Reliance Brands Ltd, will run through July 30 2025. After Rahul Mishra's grand opening, the week will see some of India’s biggest Indian couturiers take the stage, including Manish Malhotra, JJ Valaya, Tarun Tahiliani, Amit Aggarwal, Falguni Shane Peacock, Rohit Bal, Aisha Rao, Rimzin Dadu and more.
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