FDCI India Men’s Weekend 2025 showcases gender fluid fashion and rebellious streetwear

Males in tousled hair, kohl rimmed eyes, daring jewelry, and 6 pack abs wander round Jaipur’s sleek outdated Diggi Palace all day. We’re on the influential FDCI India Males’s Weekend 2025 offered by Chivas Luxe Perfumes, for a glamorous peek into what males are sporting this 12 months.

Whereas ramp seems could seem unattainable, and even generally intimidatingly edgy, these concepts filter right down to the excessive avenue and on a regular basis wardrobes reasonably rapidly, so it’s a helpful glimpse into what’s more likely to affect your private model. 

The weekend featured a number of the 26 reveals, from the nation’s most established designers in addition to vibrant new expertise, together with Rajesh Pratap Singh, JJ Valaya, Shantanu & Nikhil, Varun Bahl, Ashish N Soni, Bloni and extra, showcasing modern approaches and silhouettes to supplies and strategies. 

Sunil Sethi, chairman, The Style Design Council of India (FDCI), explains how the organisation, which has about 400 members from the trade, works to additional the enterprise of style in India and guarantee its sustainable development. “We’re giving folks a platform to shine… And I’m on the lookout for individuals who need to experiment,” he says, including that menswear has been getting extra consideration, drawing extra younger expertise. “This 12 months we even have 4 girls designers who’ve an fascinating vary of males’s put on.”  

We watch the reveals and meet the designers to seek out out what males shall be sporting this 12 months. 

Outfits by Siddartha Tytler
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Siddartha Tytler: A rebellious private model  

Twilight meets Fifty Shades of Gray, and Gothic grunge meets precision tailoring at Siddartha Tytler’s present, the place angular fashions with slicked again hair and aggressive silver face equipment stroll round a roaring hearth on the Diggi Palace courtyard, to Madonna’s ‘Like a Prayer’.

The moody color palette, with deep black, teal, and navy is damaged up with streaks of silver in tailor-made fits softened with drapes, outsized jumpers and fluid hakama pants. Look nearer and there are intelligent floor gildings making each texture extra fascinating: applique particulars, shimmering sequins, and crystal work, along with delicate ruffles on the wrist and sudden zips.

From Siddartha Tytler’s vary
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“Each season, we attempt to do one thing completely different,” says Siddartha, including that he used a flexible microfibre from Vietnam for the road. “It’s stunning and it falls very properly.”

The brooding, reasonably masculine assortment options some sudden twists, like corsets and sweeping skirts. “These are little components to wake folks up,” smiles the designer, including, “I’m a toddler of the 80s and a scholar of the 90s: so it’s all about excessive style, glamour and intercourse.” 

Anter-Agni’s exuberant assortment titled Be Proper Again
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Anter Agni by Ujwal Dubey: Gender fluid style 

Males in lace saunter down the runway in Anter-Agni’s exuberant assortment titled Be Proper Again. “It’s a small playful assortment,” says Ujwal, “I’ve used extra color and added botanical prints, in addition to summary embroidery.”

From Anter-Agni’s vary
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Compared to his darkish monotones of the previous, this assortment is vibrant and hopeful, with clear cuts and jaunty floor work. “I used lace this time, however it’s very refined. I like working with the most typical components, and taking a contemporary have a look at them, like lace, pin tucks and pleats,” he says, including “My garments are slightly female… I run away from standardisation.”

The gathering options asymmetrical strains, and construction with fluidity, in ivory and earthy neutrals like caramel. Because the male fashions stroll: glittering jewelry, hints of female lace and embroidery come along with modern masculine strains.  

Nitin Bal Chauhan was impressed by certainly one of India’s oldest picket mural temples, Devi Kothi
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Nitin Bal Chauhan: Road put on with persona  

Take armour, however make it stylish. Nitin makes use of armour core to present his signature streetwear an edge.  

The designer, who’s from Chamba, has been impressed by certainly one of India’s oldest picket mural temples, Devi Kothi devoted to goddess Chamunda, for his 2025 assortment. Nitin says, “I wished to usher in that warrior aspect. To encourage folks to combat for his or her desires. It’s the spirit of a go-getter, a hustler, and streetwear wants that vibe.” 

An outfit by Nitin Bal Chauhan
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Nitin cleverly manages to take the type of medieval armour and create up to date silhouettes with intricate building. Hoodies, jackets, bomber jackets, saggy pants and tapered cargo pants are given individuality with industrial washes, sudden loops, rivets and zippers.  

Miniature work of the Devi Kothi temple are then hand-painted onto hoodies utilizing Air Ink — an ink made out of accumulating vehicular carbon emissions in Delhi and NCR, which the designer has been experimenting with. “If something may also help curb air air pollution, we should always strive it,” says Nitin. “Probably the most scarce pigment on the earth is black. So it’s a ravishing window of alternative.”  

Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna
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Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna: Outdated world glamour and pearls  

Because the music swells, the ramp lit by buttery, flickering candles, is stuffed with statuesque fashions swathed in light-weight, flowing silks and rippling pearls.  

The favored designers embrace quiet luxurious, impressed by Rajasthan’s palaces with their inlaid marble and textured sandstone. The gathering provides refined minimalism, however nonetheless feels extravagant, luxurious and up to date with matador jackets, large leg relaxed match trousers and structured silhouettes. “We began 30 years in the past,” says Rohit, including, “At the moment wives and moms used to purchase males garments. Now, males know precisely what they need. They’ve change into extra experimental, and grooms don’t need to be overshadowed by the bride anymore.”

A creation by Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna
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Rahul provides, “Impressed by Jaipur, we wished to glam it up this 12 months, so we added pearls, gem stones and chocolate colors. We selected pearls, as a result of they’re refined. They shine, however not in an overwhelming means.” 

VK is impressed by the Thirukkural
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VK by Vivek Karunakaran: Design that’s rooted in dwelling 

The gathering, which is a celebration of identification, options softly draped veshtis, fluid palazzos and embroidered Madras checks and is rooted in Tamil Nadu, particularly Chennai. “There may be delight in proudly owning the place you’re from,” says Vivek, who launched his label in Chennai 18 years in the past.

An outfit by Vivek Karunakaran
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His newest line is impressed by the Thirukkural, reimagined in pure fibres like silk organza, taffeta, linen and Egyptian cotton. The garments are painstakingly embroidered, reflecting the craftsmanship of temple carvings, and repeating the motif of jasmine flowers. As fashions stroll the ramp in ecru, vanilla, scarlet and crimson, intricate detailing is obvious: from jasmine flowers positioned from wrist to elbow as felt applique, the way in which flower-sellers measure spools, to handstitched Madras checks created as a texture on the clothes.  

Designer Sushant Abrol (centre) with fashions sporting his vary
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Countrymade by Sushant Abrol: A softer tackle navy style  

With a palette steeped in deep greys and brown hues, this assortment questions warfare, impressed by a charred piece of an plane’s fuselage. Designer Sushant Abrol describes the residual of warfare together with his garments, and though they’re primarily based on the combative types of navy clothes, from trench coats to bomber jackets, additionally they exude a way of hope with considerate particulars like kantha stitches that run by the gathering and metal-like buttons, crafted in a pottery studio with stoneware clay.

There are hand-tucked materials, craggy denim textures and complex handmade textures in camouflage patterns. The gathering additionally options frayed edges on shirts and jackets and prints drawn from the form of molten steel.  Sushant says that they experimented with leather-based for the road, “We used pigments on undyed leather-based, then spray painted it and dried it until it turned onerous, and we obtained cracks like a spider internet.”  

A creation by Sushant Abrol 
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There are many equipment from molten steel buckles to rings and pocket squares. “It’s navy however a special perspective. We have a look at the emotional facet of males in uniform,” says Sushant. “Our take is heartfelt.” 

Nikita Mhaisalkar’s vary was themed on Africa
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Nikita Mhaisalkar: Prints on journey put on  

From placing males in shimmering corsets to creating lavish embroidery carpeted over geometric weaves on jackets, Nikita’s assortment celebrates the cheerful notes of Afro popular culture.

Impressed by the designer’s current vacation in Africa, the gathering is a tribute to journey, that includes structured pant fits, bomber jackets and flowing trench coats. “I noticed so many tribes on the safari reserves, and every of them had their very own print cultures,” she says, including that learning their sacred geometry, joyous sample conflict and celebration of kind resulted on this assortment.

Attire from Nikita Mhaisalkar’s assortment
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It additionally options her favorite materials, hemp. “It’s very natural, very versatile, very luxurious and intensely breathable,” she says. Discussing how Indian males have began taking an curiosity in style over the previous few years, particularly post-pandemic, she provides “Persons are travelling a lot now, that they’re on the lookout for sensible journey staples, so I’ve additionally used crepes and silks that journey properly. Now clients need garments which might be straightforward to take care of, and pocket pleasant.”