Drawing inspiration from the ocean’s deepest realms, where life emerges from silence and light seems to glow from within, Rohit Gandhi Rahul Khanna present Abyssal, a couture collection that exists in a world of its own. Rooted in stillness and restraint, the collection explores how form, light, and texture come together beneath the surface.
In a season defined by brightness and sunlit energy, the designers turn inward, diving into the ocean’s most concealed layers. Abyssal is built on the belief that structure comes before visibility. Couture takes shape through architectural silhouettes adorned with pearls, metallic florals, and intricate stonework, reflecting the ocean floor’s quiet grace and raw originality.
Speaking about the collection, the designers share that their work has always been driven by an interest in architecture within couture. The precision of angles, the interaction of light and shadow, and the layering of textures are central to their design language. For Abyssal, this exploration goes deeper, drawing from the science and structural beauty of ocean depths where light fades and colour gradually disappears. It is within this environment that an ancient sense of poetry emerges, revealed slowly with every descent, and it is this emotion that the collection seeks to capture.
Surface ornamentation plays a defining role, echoing the natural elements of the ocean through pearls, diamantes, and unconventional crystal forms. Hand-embroidered like artifacts discovered on the sea floor, these details are not applied as decoration but exist as an extension of the garment’s environment. Light glimmers across sculptural silhouettes, while layers of sheer textiles merge and dissolve into one another, creating depth and moments of revelation. Here, the veil becomes a way of seeing rather than concealing.
The colour palette moves fluidly through ocean-inspired ombrés, combining abyssal blues, mineral greys, frost whites, and deep charcoals. These shades mirror the way light diffuses underwater, allowing couture to unfold gradually and with reverence.
Each garment in Abyssal contours the body into sculpted forms, appearing first as a shadow before resolving into defined structure. Layers of translucency create optical illusions, balancing motion and stillness in equal measure. The collection becomes a study of suspended movement, where flux is held in quiet balance.
The collection imagery was created on a lightbox, paying homage to the ocean bed as a source of life and illumination. Light rises from within the space, revealing the garments slowly and echoing the way the abyssal world reveals itself.
Abyssal reflects Rohit Gandhi Rahul Khanna’s vision of contemporary Indian ceremonial dressing. Precise, restrained, and architectural, the collection is designed for spring weddings, cocktail evenings, destination celebrations, and pre-wedding moments where elegance is expressed through composure rather than excess. Building on a legacy of over two decades, the house continues to shape a modern language of formalwear that values structure, refinement, and clarity of form.
Designed for both men and women, Abyssal presents couture as an experience rather than an object. It exists beneath the obvious narrative, in a space where light, structure, and translucency coexist in quiet harmony.
Because the abyssal is not emptiness.
It is depth.
It is reassurance.
It is life taking form.
It is the veil, unveiled.
