Bhumi Pednekar, Anita Dongre Tell Us What Couture Means to Them

The Quint spoke to the biggest names in fashion to understand what the word couture meant to them

A model displays a design by Anita Dongre at the India Couture Week 2016 in New Delhi (Photo: AP)

Couture is passion and patience; it is endless labour. Couture is detailing – patterns, embroideries, painfully strewn, piece by piece, thread by thread. Couture is inspired design: it is the designers’ vision brought to life. It isn’t simply heavy clothes, it is much more. It is wearable art to some, a mindless indulgence to others.

But from all the applause that awestruck audiences and onlookers shower on these clothes, their wearer and everyone who has put them together, all we can say is that couture is ... glory. The Quint presents to you all that the word connotes.

Model displaying a Tarun Tahiliani creation at India Couture Week 2016. (Photo: The Quint)

Model displaying a Tarun Tahiliani creation at India Couture Week 2016. (Photo: The Quint)

Model displaying an Anita Dongre creation at India Couture Week 2016. (Photo: The Quint)