All the highlights from Hyundai India Couture Week 2025

No longer tethered strictly to traditional showcases, the collections this year at the Hyundai India Couture Week 2025, an initiative of FDCI, in association with Reliance Brands, stretched the boundaries of form, function, and fantasy. As the curtains draw on this season, one thing is clear: the next era of couture is inclusive, imaginative, and entirely unafraid.

DAY ONE

Rahul Mishra

A moon-themed stage came to life as Rahul Mishra unveiled Becoming Love on Day 1 of Hyundai India Couture Week 2025. The collection—an extension of his Paris Haute Couture showcase—felt like walking through a dreamscape of devotion, obsession, and surrender. Embroidery glistened like stardust, and veils dripped with intricate beading that blurred fantasy with form. Each piece was a love letter to craft, bursting with drama—whether in butterfly-shaped bodices, galactic gold lamé, or the surreal beauty of blooming 3D roses. Tamannaah Bhatia closed the show in a pastel, painted and embroidered lehenga like an artist’s garden, embodying the final dissolution of self into love. Rahul Mishra opened this season with a bang and a bedazzling transformation on fabric. In his universe, love isn’t soft-focus; it’s a cosmic force. And on that runway, the feeling transcended into silhouettes, blooming and becoming.

DAY TWO

Roseroom by Isha Jajodia

Whispers of Love To Myself by Roseroom by Isha Jajodia redefines bridalwear through emotion-led design and heirloom-level craftsmanship. Crafted over 500 hours, each piece weds sculpted lace, 18K gold, and ethereal craftsmanship to echo a woman’s return to self. The collection unfolded in four emotive chapters—Dear Innocence, To My Becoming, With Love, Always, and I Am—tracing a tender evolution from fragility to fierce grace. Riddhima Kapoor Sahni closed the show, bringing timeless glamour to the runway. From pearl-embellished corsetry to weightless capes, every silhouette whispers strength in softness. 

Suneet Varma

Suneet Varma’s latest couture collection is a twilight symphony—awashed in moonlit metallics, midnight blacks, and iridescent blues. The collection wove a fantastical narrative through sequinned chevrons, feathered flourishes, and baroque embellishments. Every silhouette—whether a sculpted sherwani or a sheer cape lehenga—felt like a brush with stardust. Tara Sutaria closed the show in a corseted gown kissed with crystals and lace—an ode to vintage romance and modern-day grace. Delicate yet dramatic, the hand-embroidery had the essence of candlelight across flowing fabrics, while avant-garde accessories added to the theatrical gravitas. With its balance of old-world romance and celestial glamour, this collection reimagined the clothes through a lens of poetic fantasy and bold femininity.

DAY THREE

Amit Aggarwal

Amit Aggarwal opened a portal to inner worlds with Arcanum—where couture became coded biology. Sculpted dresses rippled like liquid memory; tailored suits mimicked neural pathways and flowing lava. In a show that felt part sci-fi, part sacred geometry, Aggarwal showcased a new take on the language of form. While sculpted silhouettes glowed with an almost extraterrestrial sheen and tailored suits adorned with exquisite embellishments, masked models moved through a dreamscape of eerie, otherworldly sound. Here, technique met tenderness, structure met the soul. Aggarwal reimagined his classic essence of experimentation with form, pushing the boundaries of couture, merging biomorphic forms with futuristic fantasy.

Falguni Shane Peacock

Falguni Shane Peacock’s showcase was a glitter-drenched dream—where Indian royalty met jazz-age rebellion in a spectacle of shimmer, structure, and sheer cinematic flair. The show unfolded into a maximalist fantasy: sequinned lehengas, metallics that caught every glint of light, floor-length capes, and daring pairings with sheer panels and denim while also having the timeless elements of intricate feathers, embroidered veils and sherwanis with shimmering embellishments. Akshay Kumar made a striking runway appearance as the showstopper in a classic white sherwani. Set against a baroque garden of marble peacocks and vine-clad columns, it felt like Bridgerton collided with Bollywood—bold, unapologetic, and dripping in theatrics. This collection was Indian couture as fearless finesse, a symphony of feathers, sparkle, and future-facing craftsmanship.

Lead image: FDCI

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