Human Frailty by Rahul Mishra
Rahul Mishra invites us to reflect on our place in the universe in a collection full of majesty and grandiloquence in capital letters.
Inspired by Carl Sagan’s book of the same name, ‘The Pale Blue Dot’ is a perfect fusion between textile art and the emotionally and cosmically charged narrative of our place in the cosmos.
A place to which Mishra invites us to travel through a profound reflection on the insignificance of human life, while at the same time it remains an indissoluble part of the universe to which it belongs.
This idea, and a deep consideration, has been translated into unique pieces combining haute couture’s majesty with profound messages about existence and nature.
Accordingly, the Indian-born designer gives shape to a collection in which architectural structures give way to natural elements such as three-dimensional flower embroidery or dragonflies and ethereal wings that emerge from the dresses, evoking how the nature that surrounds us seeks and claims its rightful space.
Rahul Mishra aims to fill the coming spring-summer season with symbolically charged garments in which the lights of the city are recreated through impressive layers of sequins that are arranged as if they were skyscrapers.
Pleats and drops in the folds, together with transparencies and decorated fabrics with asymmetrical cuts, seek to evoke pollution as a growing phenomenon.
The 3D printing of crows, in a style reminiscent of Hitchcock himself, reinforces this idea of human impact on Mother Nature.
Mishra presents a collection with a markedly sombre tone, behind which the designer launches an ode to hope, mixing it with gold, a colour that exalts the grandeur of nature and with which he appeals to rebirth.
Perhaps his collection hides a clear desire for a true rebirth of society amidst so much darkness?
Rahul Mishra‘s spring-summer haute couture collection is much more than a fashion collection.
It is, without a doubt, an authentic artistic statement with which the designer invites us to reflect on our true role in the universe and on the responsibility that we, as beings who belong to it, have towards it.
‘The Pale Blue Dot’ seeks to transmit through meticulously crafted creations a message that is more than evident about the real connection that exists between life, loss, and hope.
A risky bet that only a master of haute couture is capable of making.
