Homebound actor Ishaan Khattar turns showstopper for Anamika Khanna’s new collection

Framed by the Howrah Bridge and the trembling waters of the Hooghly river, the expansive finale of Blenders Pride Fashion Tour 2025, powered by the Fashion Design Council of India, unfolds against the metropolis skyline aboard 1 of The Bengal Paddle’s barges past Saturday. Showcasing her AK|OK postulation successful her location city, manner decorator Anamika Khanna promises a runway infinitesimal shaped arsenic overmuch by the spot arsenic her futuristic designs.

Explaining the Future is Crafted taxable of her edit, Anamika says, “For me, futuristic doesn’t mean abstraction age. It doesn’t mean everything has to beryllium next-level techno. It’s astir presenting practice arsenic it moves forward. That is the aboriginal of craft, and that is what we are doing.”

This variation showcases a blend of accepted motifs and practice elements from Indian trade and artistry with silver-metallic detailing. “This postulation uses precise traditional, intricate craft, but presents it successful ways that you don’t deliberation is possible,” says Anamika. “The full postulation starts with the usage of practice materials and past we commencement blending it into futuristic, somewhat much absorbing worldly that you don’t expect to usage with crafts,’’ she adds. 

The dark, gritty basslines of phonk (a subgenre of hep hop and trap music) and techno underscore the temper of the show. White lace embodying bold Indian motifs and botanical prints are reimagined successful occidental silhouettes, lace is paired with achromatic leather. Zardosi enactment gives operation to sleeveless jumpsuits adjacent to catsuits that blend seamlessly with matching shoes crafted from the aforesaid cloth and texture. A ascendant palette of achromatic becomes the canvas for metallic metallic mesh overlays, concatenation harnesses, and metal-fringe drapes, lending the postulation a distinctly futuristic edge.

The showstopper for the event, Indian histrion and Homebound star Ishaan Khattar, walks the runway successful a sheer achromatic garment with metallic embellished harness that runs vertically down the front. It is paired with a matching, embellished cummerbund cinching the shirt. The metallic cuff connected his wrists adds to the armour-like aesthetic. Ishaan says, “I truly emotion my outfit. It was the quickest fitting I person ever had. It took each of 2 and a fractional minutes and it makes maine consciousness similar a warrior but I besides consciousness similar a writer astatine the aforesaid time.” The histrion adds, “I truly bask that they take specified absorbing elements and Nature arsenic a backdrop and this clip with Howrah Bridge successful the inheritance In Kolkata, it truly adds a vibrance, and an vigor and a consciousness to the show.” 

Prior to the show, Anamika tells america that, “Calcutta is my location and this feels similar homecoming. I person grown up here, I person studied here, my friends are here, my beingness is here, wherever I work, each azygous artisan is from Kolkata, and I consciousness similar the precise information that I bash what I bash is due to the fact that I beryllium here. The trade here, the civilization here, the ethos of beingness present allows maine to bash that”.

Speaking astir what is successful store for the future, the decorator concludes, “New stores, caller inventions, planetary enactment are happening, truthful it is an breathtaking clip for us. “