India Couture Week: Behind-the-scenes probe of how spectacle comes to stage

Currently in its 10th year, ICW is a big deal for designers as it marks their yearly couture line

It is a sweltering Thursday afternoon and a badly jetlagged Varun Bahl, just back from Barcelona, has been in a flurry of meetings with his choreographers, set designers and tailors. With barely 10 days left for the FDCI India Couture Week, the fashion designer has his hands full.

After the successful showing of his Vintage Garden collection last year, Bahl is trying a different theme for this edition. He is combining his trademark floral motifs with elements from the art deco and art nouveau movement, for which he spent time in Barcelona visiting for inspiration the home of architect Antoni