Rocky Star, founder of Rocky Star Couture, brings glitter and grandeur to London
Six months in the making, and it showed. Rocky Star Couture's A/W 26/27 collection filled the room at London Fashion Week with hand-embroidered corsets, sculpted silhouettes and elongated gowns dripping in crystals, sequins, pearls, metallic beadwork and feathers.
All of the looks worked in gunmetal, antique silver, champagne, muted gold and deep charcoal. Sheer fabric and fluid draping kept the embellishment from tipping into excess, cutting through the weight of it with movement and transparency.
This was Rocky's fifteenth outing at London Fashion Week, not his first, and the ease of that experience was written all over the collection.
Two worlds, collided in couture
Speaking of where he gets his creative ideas, Rocky speaks openly about his background and how it influences the designs.
"It's taken me almost six months to make this collection. Every piece is handcrafted, and I wanted to create this world which was inspired by the Baroque architecture, but at the same time blending it with Indian culture, Indian embroidery," Rocky tells me backstage.
"So it's a world of two worlds coming together, creating a world for a woman who is very feminine, at the same time she's very special to me."
Where it all starts
Rocky also speaks about his influence by architecture and music and how he wanted this to shine through in the show.
"I think it always starts with a piece of music, but then the Rocky Star brand does get inspired by a lot of Baroque European architecture. But coming from India, I'm so proud of it, beautiful handcrafted embroidery. I never would let go of that. So the whole collection has everything which was handcrafted."
No stranger to the city
Although he has had fifteen shows in London, the fashionable city still has something to offer him.
"I think I like the fact that everybody appreciates art a lot. They like to blend in a lot of different cultures together, and they understand the edginess of fashion, and they like to experiment."
What's next is characteristically understated. "Well, next is to work on the next collection, but I have a couple more shows next month onwards in India."
