Gustav Klimt looms in Rahul Mishra’s fall 2025 collection during Paris Haute Couture Week on Monday.
Mishra translates Klimt’s lush symbolic language – Gold Leaf’s decades was scrapped, layered faces and sensual mystery – 30 looks like they walk straight down the canvas and enter the Paris runway.
“What shocked me the most was that his subjects rarely looked directly from the canvas. Their eyes were often closed or avoided, as if they were lost in another world. Indian Vogue. “I admire Klimt for years, but it’s interesting that until now, I have never consciously translated his influence into any of my works.”
Mishra is a Delhi-based designer who won the International Wool Award at Milan Fashion Week in 2014; he was the first Indian designer to do so.
The designer introduced his fourth collection in Paris, using traditional Indian embroidery and clothing techniques such as Zardozi and Dabka. according to Today’s India,,,,, The series took more than 2,000 craftsmen to create.
The open look, perhaps the most striking – a broad golden sculpture dress shaped like a heart, displays veins throughout the process and centers on a sequin corset.
Mishira told Women wear it every day Klimt’s woman. “They brought something mysterious.”
Another theme in the series is the seven stages of Sufi philosophy, namely the seven stages of Sufi philosophy – temptation, obsession, love, trust, worship, madness, death. In between, a surreal garden blooms: lotus burst out from stem-like bodies, and dresses shine with exquisite embroidered flowers, their surfaces are rich in texture and quiet drama. Klimt’s influence once again surfaces in a golden and spiral manner, as well as a fantastic facial diversity, a collage of memory and identity.
There is also the first one. Mishra teamed up with Milliner Stephen Jones, who stood out with the cloud-like tulip creation (Part Halo), Part Sallucination.
“Love is constant, it will always exist,” Mishira said backstage. His vision for this season hints at something more layered: love, like art, not only endures—it changes.
