India, March 27 -- At Lakme Fashion Week x FDCI 2026, if one thing was standout among the collections - it was the menswear. Men's fashion has for a long time been looked at as occasion-driven, however, this season a shift was apparent. We decode why menswear has taken over runways and how it fits into the current ecosystem of Indian fashion.

"Menswear in India is at a very interesting intersection right now," say David Abraham and Rakesh Thakore. As one of the first designers in India to introduce softer deconstructed silhouettes for men including skirts and modernising dhotis and lungis as staples in men's high fashion- it is this season that there seems to be the most obvious shared transition in the perception towards menswear. "Ther...