Rahul Mishra’s Couture Doesn’t Overpower The Wearer

Designer Rahul Mishra’s collection Parizaad is a case in point in understated sartorial excellence.

How do you create couture that doesn’t overshadow the wearer — ask designer Rahul Mishra, whose collection Parizaad is a case in point in understated sartorial excellence.

As ethereal as the name — Parizaad in Persian means born of the divine — the collection too is heavenly. A fair warning: its abstruse geometric patterns will haunt you for days!

But even though the attention is hijacked by all that poetic geometry: the attention, we assure you dear reader, keeps goes back to the elegant wearer.

Just as Girikh, or haft rangi create uninterrupted patterns of tiles, the pieces in this collection too are fabrics exhibiting stunning geometry.

Even when Mishra introduces bling, he does so with such restrain; a rare talent.

Parizaad, the collection has once again made Rahul Mishra the champion of elegance and slow fashion.

A personal thank you, Mr. Mishra, for bringing subtlety to couture.

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