Hyundai India Couture Week 2026 opened this year with a train set, quite literally. Falguni Shane Peacock’s Le Grand Voyage, presented in partnership with Kohler was set against a recreated Orient Express carriage, gold-lettered windows, red velvet curtains and all.
The idea behind the collection was simple. Two characters, the Peacock Woman and the Peacock Man, travel through Rome, Paris, Morocco and Egypt before coming home to India. Along the way, they pick up craftsmanship rather than souvenirs. That journey shows up in the clothes through references to Byzantine mosaics, old Paris, Gothic Strasbourg, Bavaria’s palaces and the Taj Mahal, without ever feeling too literal or costume-like.
The silhouettes moved between two moods all through the
show. Structured corsets sat next to sweeping capes. Sharp bandhgalas sat next to open embroidered sherwanis. One standout look was a strapless, fully sequinned maroon gown, with a pair of intertwined swans embroidered in white beadwork across the bodice and skirt, ending in a feathered maroon hem. Another look we loved was a nude, sheer gown covered almost entirely in crystal work, with a single beaded swan across the chest and a sheer cape draped off one shoulder.
Texture did a lot of the talking too for FSP. A black velvet corset-and-skirt set came with gold sunburst embroidery on the bodice and a hand-embroidered figure worked into the skirt’s train, paired with a soft mauve feather stole. Another look combined a fully embroidered bralette and matching mermaid skirt in a dense, jewel-toned pattern of red, green and gold, finished with a matching feathered stole.
The colours followed the brief closely: navy, cashmere blue, jewel tones, soft parchment, silver, rose gold and warm metallics, all pulled from frescoes and Byzantine mosaics. The same palette carried into the collection’s collaboration with Kohler, whose Colours and Finishes range, shades like Brushed Rose Gold, Brushed Bronze, French Gold, Teakberry and Cashmere, showed up in the embroidery and surface work. Kohler also set up an installation of its faucets alongside the runway, linking the couture back to the collaboration in a fairly direct way.
P.C. Totuka & Sons, the show’s jewellery partner, launched its new high jewellery line Colourdrop at the show, featuring diamonds, emeralds, rubies and other gemstones worn through several key looks.
At the end of the show, designers Falguni and Shane came out together in matching black, to take a moment after a collection that spent most of its runtime in motion. For a label known for taking Indian couture abroad, Le Grand Voyage feels like it comes full circle, a collection about travel that still ends up back home.
