Raw Mango Fall Winter 2026
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE FLOWER  

The garland is simple, utilitarian, and so familiar it almost exists within the subconscious of Indian visual culture. Its power lies in composition — in how elements are strung together. Across India, it marks reverence, transition and celebration by gathering fragments into a single gesture. Its emotion lies not in individual components, but in how they are arranged.  
Garlands honour, welcome, adorn and consecrate. Ubiquitous in nature, they emerge from local material vocabularies and expansive floral traditions shaped by landscape, season, and belief. They adorn what is deemed significant: vehicles, shrines, marriages, death rituals, the self, lovers, public monuments, and domestic thresholds.  
Raw Mango Fall Winter 2026 studies this grammar, where the garland functions as a social object, assuming meaning through acts of gathering and display. The collection draws from this sculptural adornment and from the bundled economies of flower markets. Throughout, it examines hierarchy, rhythm, and direction across the body. Garlands and their making appear through innovative textiles, at  times folded, layered, and assembled.  It’s Not About The Flower always returns to its premise: the meaning emerges through gathering, and gathering exceeds the individual.  

Photography: Ashish Shah
Cinematography: Tito