Gaurav Gupta spring 2026 couture review
Nowhere else at haute couture week will you see a conjoined twin dress, a gown that lights up or a series of wondrous lacy masterpieces than at Gaurav Gupta. The Indian couturier has quickly become a highlight of the season for his mix of ingenious craft combined with witty conceptual work and a thought-provoking element of performance art, simply by existing in the space between fashion and art.
The label dubbed its spring couture collection The Divine Androgyne inspired by the ancient Indian school of philosophy of Advait—described by the brand as “non duality”.
Several of the pieces in the collection could easily be considered walking art. The aforementioned conjoined twin dress, rendered in ivory and scarlet hued lace, was constructed through over 700 hours of hand embroidery and is more than meets the eyes: the threads apparently serve as a network to map the body’s nervous systems and energy points (chakras), seamlessly connecting the two models in harmony.
Elsewhere, sculpted wedding dresses and sari gowns featured Mogra (Indian jasmine) within the structure of the architecture of the silhouettes, which was the result of 900 hours of embroidery under nearly 50 artisans.
That out-of-this-world cosmic explosion of a dress? It consisted of 2,000 individually placed resin elements. One architectural crystal mini gown sparkled with an extra celestial dose of glitter as it swayed on the model. All in all, 30,000 crystals were used in the entire collection. But it’s not just about the numbers: Gaurav Gupta’s work elicits the kind of visceral emotion that’s hard to come by in today’s world.
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