Where Style Meets Conscious Luxury
Held at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, Lakmé Fashion Week x FDCI 2025 transcended mere aesthetics. Designers didn’t just showcase garments—they made statements. Cultural heritage met global consciousness, technology danced with tradition, and every runway became a reflection of the world we live in—and the one we aspire to create.
A Sneak Peek by Seema Dhawan.
Anamika Khanna’s ‘Silver Collar’ for AK|OK Opens Lakmē Fashion Week x FDCI with a Poetic Power Play
Some shows don’t just open a fashion week—they open a conversation. At the 2025 edition of Lakmē Fashion Week x FDCI, Anamika Khanna’s AK|OK label did just that: blurring lines between elegance and assertion, grace and grit, through a collection that redefined what it means to be powerful in your own skin.
Titled “Silver Collar,” the collection was both a tribute and a provocation—to wear beauty on your own terms, to lead with inner strength, to soften only when you choose. Inspired by Lakmē’s 9 to 5 Hya-Matte range, it embodied the essence of the unstoppable woman—polished, purposeful, and perfectly in motion.
The collection unfolded in sculpted layers: soft metallic drapes, subtle Indian silhouettes reborn in contemporary cuts, structure softened by artisanal detail. Every piece felt lived-in yet commanding—clothes designed not to overwhelm but to empower.
And then came Ananya Panday, floating down the runway in a reinterpretation of the saree that was both fluid and fierce. She didn’t walk the runway—she moved through it. Her presence captured the ethos of the collection: modern femininity that’s unfiltered, unafraid, and fully formed.
In marking 25 years of Lakmē Fashion Week, this moment wasn’t about nostalgia—it was about looking forward. About redefining what the next quarter-century of Indian fashion could look like when heritage walks hand-in-hand with evolution.
Anamika didn’t just open the week—she cracked it wide open.
Photo : Perfect Shadows / FDCI x Lakme Fashion Week / RISE Worldwide
