The show that place on The Terrace of the hotel saw the circular ramp with a theatrical setting providing as the spectacular backdrop. The collection titled, ‘A Passage to India’ drew inspiration from the antiquity of the era when beautiful women from exotic lands around the world travelled to India and married the royal Maharajas, bringing in a western element to the traditional Indian aesthetic.

It featured sheer chiffon sarees decked with gold aari and thread embroidery in large floral motifs reminiscent of the Spanish culture and the beauty of the Punjab royalty. The highlight of the collection are white on white thread embroidery with a dash of color on long and short tunics with Capri trousers and Patiala salwars with tasseled triangular stoles with Spanish motifs over narrow trousers.

Another range narrating the story of Banu Pan Dei featured slim and narrow silhouettes with delicate embroideries. Sheer tulle sarees with grey and oyster pearls encrusted with Swarovski elements. Corseted blouses with decorative lace ties worn over voluminous crushed silk skirts. Fur shrugs decorated with ribbons and slim-fit velvet trouser suits.

While the story of Niloufer Farhat Begum Sahiba of the Ottoman Empire came alive in the form of long kalidar kurtas in black, teal, ivory and red with thread embroidery in ‘Topkapi’ motifs reminiscent of the rich Ottoman Empire. The highlights of the collection were sheer sarees with velvet jackets; light weight silk skirts and tunics with nostalgic antique embroideries; block printed ensembles in many shades of blue, Persian blue, turquoise, and navy teemed with dull gold. The ensembles were accompanied with handmade accessories of ropes and tassels knotted with metal elements in Turkish shapes.

The evening was graced by who’s who of the city including included: Priya Sachdev, Tikka Shatrujit Singh, Kalyani Saha, Priya Paul, Ameeta Seth and Vibhor Gupta, Chetan Seth, Sheetal and Pranav Ansal, Natasha Nanda, Sushma Seth with daughter Divya Seth, Sangeeta Assomull , Sujata Assomull Sippy, Rekha Purie with Koel Purie RInchet and Kalli Purie, Mamta Malhotra, Simar Duggal, Harmeet Bajaj, Ayesha Thapar, Sanjeev & Shelly Batra, Aditi Govitrikar, Pia & Aftab Pauro, Subodh Gupta, Sanjay & Sheena Sharma, AD & Sabina Singh, Gautam Seth & Prateek Jain, Gaurav Raina, Tanisha Mohan, Pushpanjali & Rohtash Chawla, Puneet & Rohan Juneja, Neesha Singh, Fleur Xavier. Fashion design fraternity was represented by: Sunil Sethi, Ravi Bajaj, David Abraham with Kevin Nigli and Rakesh Thakore, Pankaj Ahuja, Namrata Joshipura, Nandita Basu, Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna, Leena Singh, Manav Gangwani, Rina Dhaka, Gauri & Nainika Karan, Ranna Gill, JJ Valaya, Poonam Bhagat, Reema & Shantanu Mehra, Varun Bahl, Raghuvendra Rathore and many more…

Located at The Oberoi, Gurgaon, the store spans more than 4,220 square feet over two floors, and boasts of a design concept by Frida Gianni. To mark this special launch, Gucci held a private cocktail party at the newly opened store – hosted by Patrizio di Marco, Gucci President & CEO with Vikram Oberoi of The Oberoi Group.

To commemorate the opening, exclusive iconic pieces from the Gucci Museo were showcased. These include items that represent the Houses’ eternal icon – the Flora pattern along with a selection of evening gowns from the House’s Florentine archives. Women’s ready to wear, original drawings of the Flora scarf from 1966, handbags with the flora and unique porcelain items were displayed on the ground floor.

Gucci Première dresses worn by Jessica Alba, Berenice Bejo and Salma Hayek along with a one of a kind dress worn by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was on display on the first floor. A large selection of these pieces and evening gowns were showcased for the first time. The exclusive exhibit will be on display for a month at the store.

The launch evening saw few illustrious names from all walks of life including the Ambassador of Italy, H.E. Giacomo Sanfelice di Monteforte, Armando Branchini, Nargis Fakhri, Rahul Khanna, Ayushmann Khurana, Tanisha Mohan, Ranna Gill, Gaurav Gupta, Siddhartha Tytler, Rohit Gandhi & Rahul Khanna, Kapil Chopra, Bela Madan, Shilpa Dhingra, Ammu Saidi, Subodh Gupta, Shabnam Singhal, Mandira Koirala, Amita & Chetan Seth, Ramola Bachchan, Aneesa Dhody, Robbie Mohan, Sangeeta Assomull, Amrita Thakur, Amitabh Kant, Anil & Cheena Vig, Anjana Bhargava, Soumya Khurana, Gunjita Dhawan, Kanika Saluja and Payal Sen among others.

For the limited edition merchandise, visitors and customers were welcomed by the foot taping music of DJ Lloyd spinning Tiesto hits. The goody bag not only consisted of fantastic discounts but also free makeovers & specially customized Tiesto giveaways.

The GUESS DJ Tiesto collection is a 22 piece capsule line inspired by the growing power of electronic music and lifestyle surrounding it in today’s pop culture Available across GUESS stores in the country, the collection includes skinny-fit jeans for men and women, graphic print T-shirts reminiscent of the digital light shows and video projections during Tiesto performance.