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Sabyasachi takes Bengal Byzantine Broadway to New York
Eighteen years after his last New York show, the Calcutta couturier returns with 72 looks, denim, cowboy hats and Byzantine-inspired high jewellery made in India.
A return, on his own terms
Sabyasachi Mukherjee's Bengal Byzantine Broadway is a 72-look collection imagined as a conversation between old-world metropolises: Calcutta, Constantinople and the velocity of mid-century Broadway.
Christy Turlington opened the show in denim-on-denim, an unexpected opening note for a house built on bridal velvet, and a deliberate signal that the label now speaks in a global wardrobe.
The jewellery is the headline
The presentation launched a multiyear collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, beginning with high jewellery drawn from the museum's Byzantine holdings and made entirely in India.
Why it matters
For Asian luxury, the show is a template: heritage handled as a living design language, priced and staged at the level of the European houses.
Photography
Bengal woman’s costume, 1990s, Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum. Photograph by Daderot, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Textile-context photograph; not a Sabyasachi collection photograph.
South Asia · Reported from GQ India. Source attribution provided by the Coush desk.