{
  "id": 11582335,
  "title": "Luxe Radar: 3 Indian Designers Rewriting Runways And Retail",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/03/luxe-radar-3-indian-designers-rewriting-runways-and-retail",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-03T01:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/lifestyle/luxe-radar-3-indian-designers-rewriting-runways-and-retail"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Three Indian designers are making waves at fashion week, redefining the way we experience fashion. Shweta Kapur has introduced Apartment-88, a traveling retail format that brings her fashion, design, culture, and community together in a setting that resembles a lived-in apartment. The first stop for Apartment-88 is Biophilia F/W '26, her latest collection, which explores transformation, movement, and the stages of becoming. The collection takes on a different character at each location it visits, from contemporary homes to design-led hospitality spaces.\n\nMeanwhile, Tilfi Banaras has collaborated with avant-garde fashion label Matières Fécales for Matières Fécales' Spring/Summer 2027 presentation at Paris Fashion Week. The collaboration features Banarasi handloom textiles, reinterpreted and constructed into contemporary silhouettes. The collection includes a handwoven Katan silk Kadhua Booti Meenakari textile and two additional hand-embroidered textiles, showcasing how Indian handloom can be experimented with beyond its traditional context.\n\nFinally, OTT by Tarun Tahiliani has teamed up with contemporary artist Anjolie Ela Menon for a collection that translates Menon's evocative visual language into fashion. The result is a fusion of luminous portraits, layered colors, and contemplative figures, shaped by Indian traditions and European Renaissance influences. The collection features draped skirts, concept saris, and effortless separates in lapis blues, vermilions, and softened earth tones, with archival motifs integrated into the designs.",
  "summary": "Shweta Kapur reimagines retail Delhi-based designer Shweta Kapur has introduced Apartment-88, a new travelling retail and experience format rather than a conventional store. The idea is to create the vibe of a lived-in apartment rather than a commercial retail floor space that brings her fashion, design, culture and community together over conversations and discovery. The first stop for…",
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}