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Beyond the Surface: The Rise of Textured Fabrics in Menswear

Date Posted February 26, 2025

Menswear is embracing a renaissance—one where timeless elegance meets modern innovation. For Spring-Summer 2025, the Roger La Viale design team has been captivated by the resurgence of classic silhouettes enhanced with 3D-inspired fabric textures. No longer are fabrics confined to the two-dimensional world; they now come alive with movement, depth, and dynamic structure.This season, the […]

Formal wear is dead! Long live formal wear!

Date Posted January 27, 2025

This is bound to raise some sharp reactions and emotions especially with those directly in this business.  OK, so let’s do an imaginary survey…. If your numbers don’t add up to anything substantial, then is it true that formal wear is dead? The world is changing fast. That is the case always for any century. […]

Bespoke Tailoring 101: How to choose the right fabric for your custom suit

Date Posted December 12, 2024

They say the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is in the details… and in bespoke tailoring, those details begin with the fabric! Why do some suits command attention from the moment you step into the room, while others fade into the background? It’s not just about the cut or the fit, it’s the fabric that […]

Top Trends Shaping Premium Menswear Industry for Autumn / Winter 2024

Date Posted November 9, 2024

“Elegance is refusal.”  These words, famously spoken by Coco Chanel, capture the spirit of the Autumn-Winter 2024 menswear season. This is a time when refinement isn’t about excess but about selecting only the most purposeful, polished pieces… This season, menswear trends draw from rich histories, capturing the essence of elegance while embracing new, understated forms […]

Custom Tailoring – An Exclusive Art Form

Date Posted October 4, 2024

There’s a quiet grace in custom craftsmanship, a whisper of artistry that weaves through the fabric with tradition, skill, and time. Isn’t it? Recently, while speaking with an acclaimed architect about wooden louvres, an intriguing truth emerged before us. Despite decades of mastery, the challenge they face is that the seasoned work crew- the traditional […]

Waste isn’t waste until we waste it – The Rakhi Project

Date Posted September 30, 2024

To clean the oceans, if you stay in a land-locked place, might require one to take a flight or a train and burn some more carbon. Ironical right? Yet, the path to environmental stewardship doesn’t always lie in grand gestures or large-scale policies. Sometimes, the journey begins with a simple, profound realisation: waste isn’t waste, […]