Q. What made you pick blue as your central colour for this show?
A. Wevolve (in partnership with World Bank) is an initiative to address the issue of gender violence which I feel strongly about. Blue has been a very successful colour for me. Two years ago I had introduced blue at the couture week. Before that, if I would ask a bride to wear blue, I would get a ‘no’, saying that it was inauspicious. The silhouettes will be refreshing like the colours too, skirt-style lehengas, kurtas with trousers and shorts, fringes — I don’t want to run away from what I usually do, but reinvent.

Designer Manish Malhotra during the rehearsals for his show which will take place tonight. Pic/Shadab Khan