Actress and Singer Selena Gomez Stuns in Indian Designer Rahul Mishra’s Amethyst Purple Dress
- Part of Mishra’s fall 2023 couture collection called “We the People,” the custom piece aims to imitate the petals of an Iris flower through intricate hand embroidery.
Actress and singer Selena Gomez hosted her first Rare Impact Fund benefit on Oct. 4 to raise money for the organization she founded “to expand access to mental health services and education for young people around the world.” Not only did the 31-year-old sport a new short hairdo, she showcased three show-stopping looks including a custom Rahul Mishra purple couture dress.
Described by Mishra as “Amethyst purple,” the dress aims to “imitate the petals of an Iris flower through intricate hand embroidery,” he wrote on Instagram. The piece was part of their fall 2023 couture collection called “We the People,” he shared. The piece is “an ode to our fashion workers who articulate the looks at our atelier,” he noted. “If you look closely at Gomez’s dress, the center of the flower is actually a small portrait of tailor Munir Ahmed at work,” he said, adding that Ahmed “he been an essential part of our team for over a decade.”
Gomez styled Gupta’s dress with “a simple pair of strappy metallic heels and dangling chandelier earrings,” according to Teen Vogue. “The dress is so stunning, it almost feels like a real-life flower,” the magazine said.
Mishra, the first Indian designer to showcase at the Paris Haute Couture Week, “champions slow fashion with traditional Indian crafts,” according to his website. He has two flagship stores in India and “a thriving national and international distribution channel,” his website adds. His designs use intricate hand-weaving and hand embroidery which “allows to build sustainable livelihoods for more than 1000 artisans.”
Originally from Malhausi, a small village located near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, he won Best Student Designer of The Year when he graduated from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, in 2005. Four years later he became the first non-European designer to win a scholarship to Milan’s Istituto Marangoni. He made his debut in 2006 at the Lakme Fashion Week with a collection using cotton handloom from Kerala.
(Top photos, courtesy, Rahul Mishra’s Twitter and rahulmishra.in)