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While it is tough to get a word in edgewise when Sabato De Sarno’s micro shorts at Gucci and Alessandro Michele’s debut Valentino collection are in competition, Milan Fashon Week Spring 2025 had a few, albeit quiet, winners this season. One of them, MFW regular Dhruv Kapoor (this is his fifth showcase), simply called his the SS25 Co-Ed show, referencing nostalgia, in particular childhood memories of dressing up in dad’s shoes or a sibling’s outfit. According to a release circulated before the show, he was taking audiences “to a time when gender had no bearing and natural feelings trumped controlled thoughts”.

Kapoor, 34, who is celebrating a decade of his eponymous brand this year, and retails through 65 stores, had tapped into consecutive dreams and his favourite stuffie as a toddler for set design. An inflatable red bunny sat at the centre of his red-lit Milan runway, its print embroidered and engineered on his models’ dresses, giant shoulder bombers, jorts and pyjamas. It was quite easy to imagine director-producer and Dhruv Kapoor regular Karan Johar in one of the blazers showcased.



Or style icon Kelly Rutherford, actor Jameela Jamil and her partner James Blake or any of his other famous front row guests, in the ensembles. Dhruv Kapoor Delhi-based Kapoor, who has put his stints at Etro and his many awards — the Vogue India Fashion Fund award in 2015, the Young Designer Award by Camera della Moda, Italy in 2019, nominations for the International Woolmark Pr.

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