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Led by Ehsaas President Aarti Mehta, a dynamic cultural tribute united leading women changemakers to celebrate female bravery in India's independence movement and contemporary civil society.
New Delhi's streetwear conversation is changing shape as Indian sneakerhead culture moves from niche obsession to a more assured luxury market. With homegrown labels Almost Gods and Jaywalking selling out across recent drops, the city's style set is signalling a growing appetite for locally made, high-design streetwear with global ambition.
At Super Bowl LX in Las Vegas, the halftime show became an unlikely showcase for Parisian atelier craft, with custom stage costumes commissioned from leading luxury houses and independent couture workshops. The result was a polished collision of spectacle and savoir-faire: crystal work, engineered tailoring and performance-led silhouettes designed to read as fashion from the stands and precision from the catwalk.
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.
India’s metro build-out has crossed a symbolic threshold: the country’s operational urban rail networks now span roughly 1,000 km across Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai and Pune, creating a new geography of value around stations, interchanges and feeder corridors. What began as a mobility project has become a land-price and leasing engine, shifting office demand toward transit-linked districts, compressing commute times for millions, and forcing developers to reprice residential inventory by access rather than distance alone. The deeper story is less celebratory. Metro-led growth is uneven, with gains concentrated in corridors that already had formal land titles, road access and institutional demand. In many cities, the metro has improved last-mile connectivity only where buses, walkability and feeder services exist; elsewhere, riders still rely on autos, two-wheelers and informal shuttles. The result is a split urban market: premium transit-oriented development near stations, and a wider ring of speculative appreciation, displacement pressure and infrastructure lag.
Indian startups raised $203.4 Mn across 21 deals between September 21 and September 25, a sharp 3.4X jump from the $58.9 Mn raised by 14 startups in the previous week. The surge was led by large rounds in AI and cleantech, with Ultraviolette Automotive and Ema accounting for most of the week's capital inflow.
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.
National leaders, social activists, environmental pioneers, and spiritual icons convened at Arya Auditorium to champion communal harmony, 'Plastic-Free India', and comprehensive societal accessibility across diverse communities.
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.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the 2026 Costume Institute theme, setting the stage for a spring exhibition that will examine the increasingly intricate dialogue between artisanal handwork and advanced technology. The concept positions fashion not simply as spectacle, but as a cultural record of how designers are negotiating labour, innovation and the future of luxury.
Bain & Company's latest outlook points to a luxury market in which growth is increasingly concentrated in the rarefied and the highly personal: made-to-measure couture, appointment-only retail and immersive client experiences. In Paris, where the business of fashion is often read through the language of craft, the forecast suggests a decisive shift from volume-led aspiration to intimacy, service and scarcity.
At the 2026 Golden Globes in Los Angeles, the red carpet signalled a decisive turn toward sculptural tailoring, disciplined volume and archival glamour. Amid the season's first major awards moment, actors and stylists leaned into bold architectural silhouettes and vintage high jewelry, suggesting a market-wide appetite for clothes with permanence, provenance and visible construction.
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