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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.
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.
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.
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.
The Victoria and Albert Museum has announced a major exhibition examining the entwined histories of British punk and couture, bringing together subversive street style, radical tailoring and the ateliers that turned rebellion into fashion language. Opening in London, the show promises to map how torn T-shirts, safety pins and aggressive silhouettes entered the luxury lexicon and reshaped global dress codes.
In Paris, winter bridal commissions are shifting away from overt spectacle and toward a more exacting form of luxury: hand-beaded French lace, disciplined silhouette architecture and modular capes that can be removed for ceremony, dinner and dance. The result is a couture bridal market that prizes versatility without surrendering romance, and places craftsmanship at the centre of modern wedding dressing.
On Fifth Avenue, the annual window ritual has returned with heightened theatricality as Bergdorf Goodman and Saks unveil holiday installations that treat couture as both spectacle and civic art. This year's displays lean into handwork, fantasy and the architecture of retail theatre, underscoring how luxury houses continue to use New York's most visible boulevard as a global stage for brand storytelling.
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 Paris Couture Week, Dior presented a Spring 2026 collection that treated moiré silk not as ornament but as an architectural language, pairing it with rigorously engineered tailoring and a collaboration with feminist textile artists. The result was a quietly radical show that linked heritage craft to contemporary debates about authorship, labor and the future of luxury.
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