India, Oct. 24 -- From a street bazaar to artisans spinning on stage, Lakme Fashion Week's closing days turned clothes into pure theatre

Somewhere between a candy-floss seller strolling down the ramp and a Ladakhi artisan quietly spinning Pashmina under the lights, the closing days of Lakme Fashion Week 2026 in partnership with FDCI turned into something closer to theatre than a parade of clothes. Designers built whole worlds around their collections, from mirrored columns and Rishab Kumar's FARAK and its village folktales of witches and kings, to a bustling Indian street with street lamps, balloons and rolled chatai, where each prop carried a piece of the story. While Pawan Sachdeva recast Bandhani and Kantha into easy, gender-fluid tai...