The future of fashion often reveals itself in fragments – through material, through form, through the way garments respond to the body. At Lakmē Fashion Week x FDCI, that vision came into sharp focus as Malavika Mohanan closed the runway for Anurag Gupta, marking a defining moment for the designer.
Malavika Mohanan’s closing look distilled the collection’s essence into a striking visual statement. Dressed in an all-white ensemble, she wore a structured, cropped jacket layered over a crisp shirt, paired with an asymmetric skirt that introduced movement into an otherwise architectural silhouette. A sharp black tie punctuated the look, adding contrast and reinforcing the collection’s dialogue between control and disruption. It was clean, deliberate and quietly commanding.
Titled The New Primitive – Reclaiming Rawness in a Refined World, Gupta’s collection explored an idea that feels increasingly relevant: how do we hold onto the organic in a world driven by precision and technology? Drawing from the work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, he translated fluid, almost kinetic visual narratives into garments that felt structured yet alive.
Speaking about the collection, Anurag Gupta said, “This collection imagines a future where nature and technology are no longer negotiating space, but evolving as one system. I wasn’t interested in contrast, I was interested in coexistence."
At the heart of the collection was an experimental textile developed using natural fibres and enhanced through plasma technology. The result was a fabric that retained its organic tactility while gaining structural strength and adaptability. Engineered jacquards further extended this exploration, transforming motion into pattern and surface into dimension.
Source - News18