ANITA DONGRE LOVE ALL FESTIVE WINTER 2026 INDIAN COUTURE PICHHWAI ART NATHDWARA GOTA PATTI HAND EMBROIDERY HAND-PAINTED LEHENGAS VEGAN LEHENGA REGENERATIVE FIBRES FESTIVE FASHION SUSTAINABLE FASHION RAJASTHAN CRAFTSMANSHIP CONTEMPORARY INDIA NATIONAL
MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA
By IFAB MEDIA - NEWS BUREAU - August 11, 2026 | 55 3 minutes read
The first capsule of Anita Dongre's Festive Winter 2026 collection, Love All, begins with a simple and quietly radical premise: that the finest love is found between equals.
The inspiration draws its visual world from the tennis court — two players, a net strung with flowers, an elder in silk presiding from the umpire's chair. But the clothes themselves ask something more intentional. What does it mean to stand across from someone and choose them, fully? What kind of love allows two people to remain entirely themselves?
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The palette opens in sun-kissed pastels - the softest blush, ivory warmed toward afternoon, amber that doesn't hurry. Colours that settle rather than announce. Into these, the house's craft vocabulary moves with characteristic restraint: Gota Patti that catches the light the way joy catches a room; Embroidery laid across silk with the unhurried confidence of something made entirely by hand.
At the centre of the range are the hand-painted Pichhwais, the work of artists in Nathdwara who have practiced this form for over 350 years. Where the tradition depicts deities in communion with nature, Anita Dongre invites those artists to turn the gaze inward, to paint nature itself as the protagonist. Birds in conversation. Trees that lean towards each other. A world at gentle, unhurried play. Each completed lehenga represents 90 to 120 days of work, passing between studios in Mumbai, Rajasthan, and Gujarat before it is whole.
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Alongside these, a dedicated vegan lehenga line built on regenerative fibres, the lightness felt the moment they are worn, the rest arriving at its own pace. A cocktail edit that extends the collection's vocabulary into pieces that move easily from ceremony into the wider world.
Love All offers no single answer to what love is. It offers, instead, a feeling & space to consider it - in a colour chosen for joy, in a garment held carefully, in the quietude of two people who have found, in each other, an equal.