Fall 2025: Rahul Mishra's Becoming Love

Rahul Mishra's Fall 2025 collection "Becoming Love" transcends fashion to become meditation made manifest. Structured around Sufism's seven stages of love—from attraction, infatuation, surrender to reverence, devotion, obsession, and finally, death.—the collection demonstrates haute couture's capacity for profound emotional expression.

Each piece from the collection beautifully tells a specific love story through embroidered narratives (romantic love, familial bonds, lasting partnerships)

It begins with the first ray of sun gathering strength and colour as it journeys toward complete oneness with the other. Until it reaches that stage poetically referred to as death, where the ‘self’ ceases to exist.

The collection's most striking creations are in the designer’s idialogue with Gustav Klimt’s ar, as Mishra translates the painter’s gilded sensuality through India's ancient craft traditions. Aari threadwork, zardozi, naqshi, dabka, and fareesha embroidery are reimagined in a contemporary light. Alongside resham threads, embellishments include beads, freshwater pearls, kundan, salli, and sequins, all woven onto silk organza, tulle, velvet, and satin fabrics.

Sculptural pieces hold their form through inset structures, meticulously fabricated at the Rahul Mishra atelier using metal craft techniques honed by local artisans under our guidance.

In many ways, this collection stands as a testament to the nearly 2,000 fashion workers who help bring a designer’s vision to life. For Mishra, fashion is a conversation between past and future as the designer bridges traditional craftsmanship with contemporary expression.