How a tragedy at home inspires Gaurav Gupta’s collection at Paris Fashion Week
Gaurav Gupta’s collection at Paris Fashion Week was more than just Couture – this was his wife, Navakirat and a reflection of his visit through a personal tragedy.
Fashion often reflects individual experiences, but some collections take the weight of the spring 2025 coucher line of Gaurav Gupta across the flame, carry the weight of flexibility and love. Earlier this week, the collection was unveiled at Paris Fashion Week, only it was not just a couture, it was a cattle retailing of a life-transportation phenomenon. In this heart, all the pride of pride, his life partner – Navakirat Sodhi – survived the accident that happened about eight months ago.
A story born of ash
Eight months ago, a simple evening turned into a bad dream. The flame of a candle is out of control, attaching Navakirat to the fire. As Gaurav ran to extinguish the flames with his bare hands, he faced himself to burn, but Navakirat bore the brunt of it – 55 percent of his body was burnt.
She was fighting for her life in the ICU for the next two and a half months as doctors gave her a 50 percent chance of surviving.
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But Navakirat fought the fight.
“He is a fighter and a survivor … he is a goddess,” Gaurav said in an emotional video shared on his official page.
Over the next months, as the newly spread over a long road for recovery, the journey not only changed its life, but it left Gaurav with a creative vision, one that needs to talk about (and It is being done long ago).
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Phoenix Rising
For pride, beyond the flame is more than only one collection- it tells a story of “flexibility, change, and infinite light within all of us”. The collection comes out of astral projection, a mysterious out-of-body experience that Gaurav and Navakirat hugged during their recovery.
Navakirat did not inspire the collection only; He embodied it. She opened the show, a cream -hand draped corset gown walking under the runway – her marks appear, her presence powerful. Everyone’s eyes saw Navakirat because she used to walk on the runway, adding all this to her poetic excellence – a strong moment for the world, a moment of witness, a moment, to recover their story at the grand stage of all. For.
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About collection
The runway turned into a powerful retailing of its journey – where each attire was not just a cloth to see the world, but a deep personal and emotional expression of existence, flexibility and rebirth.
The beauty of the collection was extended by complex details – 20,000 prisosa crystals, which catch light like embers, Mite The ornamentation Rafia and micro beads, and astronomical makeup that pay tribute to their other travels.
The season also introduced new colors such as ocher, twilight purple and space blue, which symbolizes changes with the brand’s signature shades of black, ivory and metallics.
Agni, the force that tested them became an indomitable conversion, woven into the collection through form, draper and symbolism. Twin Flame Ansambal – A ocher work – destruction and the strength coming from it faces both.

The entire collection provides a glimpse in his experience, in which the color story is played an important role in telling the story. Black, dark purple and blue shades indicate bruzes and burn, while white represents healing and transdance. Midnight blue metal breastplates meet with armor, which reflects the strength between vulnerability, while traditional Banarasi brocads become woven with holy mantras, wearing wearable mantras of existence.

For the first time, Denim enters Gaurav Gupta’s coucher the universe – in a bucket corset and in a distressed bucket jacket. Raw, rebellious and defective, these pieces reflect the journey of endurance and reinforcement.
More than fashion
The collection reminds us of an quotation of Alexander Mcquin: “I think everything is beauty in everything. Do ‘normal’ people consider ugly, I can usually see some beauty in it. ,
Like Mcquin’s philosophy, crosses the flame, challenges the traditional ideas of beauty. It finds grace in flexibility, strength in scars and poetry in existence.