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Shantnu Nikhil’s Becoming Reimagines the New-Age Indian Bride

Shantnu Nikhil’s Becoming Reimagines the New-Age Indian Bride
Shantnu Nikhil Redefines the New-Age Indian Bride · deccanchronicle.com

Shantnu and Nikhil have created a new wedding clothing collection called Becoming.

It is for a bride who wants to keep parts of her family’s traditions while choosing what feels right for her.

The collection brings together ideas from both partners and their families.

It includes Indian clothes such as lehengas and sherwanis, as well as gowns and tuxedos.

Some outfits mix traditional shapes with modern tailoring and flowing fabric.

The clothes use embroidery, metallic details and prints.

Their colors move from soft shades to bold ones for different parts of a wedding day.

The designers say the collection celebrates the bride’s warmth, strength and confidence.

Key facts

Collection name
Becoming
Designers
Shantnu and Nikhil
Featured garments
Lehengas, gowns, sherwanis, tuxedos and bandhgalas
Design details
Sculpted corsetry, sweeping volume, hand embroidery, metallic details and prints
Color palette
Ivory, blush, mint, gold, emerald, navy, red and black
Central idea
Tradition is retained but adapted to reflect the bride’s choices and the couple’s backgrounds

Quotes

Shantnu and Nikhil

Fashion designers behind the Shantnu Nikhil label

“A wedding is one of those rare moments when you can almost see where you come from and where you are going at the same time. Your parents are there, sometimes two cultures are meeting, and in the middle of it all are two people beginning something of their own. Somewhere within that emotion, we found ourselves looking at the bride differently…”
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“With Becoming, we wanted the silhouettes to carry her warmth, her fire, her certainty with the same charge she brings to the ceremony and everything that comes after. Everything you carry, meeting everything you are becoming.”
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