\n\t\u201cOur\u00a0 beloved ones\u00a0 are\u00a0 no\u00a0 more\u00a0 lost\u00a0 to\u00a0 us\u00a0 when \u00a0they\u00a0 die\u00a0 than\u00a0 if\u00a0 they\u00a0 were\u00a0 still\u00a0 laughing and\u00a0 loving\u00a0 and\u00a0 working\u00a0 and\u00a0 playing\u00a0 at our\u00a0 side,\u201d wrote American author Helen Keller in her 1929 book \u201cOn Bereavement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe thought suffused Manish Malhotra\u2019s Paris Couture Week debut on Tuesday, where he sent out a lineup intended as a love letter to his mother, who passed away shortly before he received his spot on the official calendar three months ago.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI constantly feel that she\u2019s here with me, and I miss her dearly,\u201d he told WWD before the show. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s something that I just wanted to say and feel in this collection.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHer tastes and the nurturing, supportive bond they shared ran through a collection where he \u201ctried to blend it all in a very contemporary moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tOpening the show was a dramatic crinkle-pleated opera-length coat that engulfed the body. It came adorned with figures that depicted the evolving relationship from toddler embraced by his mother to adult embracing her in return.<\/p>\n
\n\tEarly exits evoked that first all-encompassing connection as cocoon-like shapes that felt protective, such as a richly embroidered ovoid pink cape and a translucent soft yellow pleated jacket with a collar that extended upwards to hide the face.<\/p>\n
\n\tNodding to his late mother\u2019s love of bangles, he imagined dresses modeled after arm stacks, their molded construction taking on a loose sci-fi vibe.<\/p>\n
\n\tNurturing bonds and the idea of blooming yielded a dress that looked like stylized petals shooting outwards; intricately knotted XXL silk cords that wrapped around the body and ended in cascades of golden thread, and later, broad shouldered looks that suggested someone grown strong enough to take on the world \u2013 or the red carpet.<\/p>\n
\n\tAlso not for wallflowers were the high jewelry pieces that were scattered in the lineup. These included an earcuff with 18-carat\u2019s worth of diamonds and 8 carats of rubellite; a necklace with 170-carats of Mozambique rubies and 12 carats of white diamonds; a Art Deco-inflected collar necklace with 38 carats of diamonds and 46 carats of rubellites, and hand jewels inspired by the traditional haathphool.<\/p>\n
\n\tAfter decades dressing Bollywood and building a large home market, Malhotra\u2019s Paris debut with the story of the woman and bond that built him read like a prologue. The next chapters will tell what he does with the new global stage it earned him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOur\u00a0 beloved ones\u00a0 are\u00a0 no\u00a0 more\u00a0 lost\u00a0 to\u00a0 us\u00a0 when \u00a0they\u00a0 die\u00a0 than\u00a0 if\u00a0 they\u00a0 were\u00a0 still\u00a0 laughing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9424,146,85,207,46,133247],"class_list":["post-532625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-couture","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-india","tag-israel","tag-paris-couture-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}