Looking back at his previous Paris Spring/Summer 2025 collection, Across the Flame, several media outlets referred to Gupta’s life partner, Navkirat Sodhi, as his wife. A label casually assigned, yet deeply revealing. For the couturier, this moment became a catalyst for inquiry. Why must relationships be defined through rigid structures? Why must identities be fixed within social hierarchies? Why must energies be named before they are felt? This misunderstanding did not end in clarification, but opened a deeper space for reflection.

The Divine Androgyne questions not individuals, but the deeper binary frameworks through which relationships are defined. Deep at its

heart lies the ancient Indian school of philosophy of Advait or non duality. Its essence views all existence as one.

Time is treated not as chronology but as material. Space, not as distance but as architecture. The body becomes a site where these forces are negotiated. Architecture and anatomy. Matter and memory. Consciousness and energy. Creation and dissolution. These are not opposites in conflict but delicately balanced systems that generate the very seed of life through their dependence on each other.

Couturier Gaurav Gupta says,

“Every silhouette in this collection is built as a living structure. We are not decorating the body, we are

mapping consciousness, memory, and movement onto it through craft, architecture, and time. These garments are meant to feel alive, as

if they are still in the process of becoming, carrying within them the tension between what is seen and what is felt.”

At its foundation, The Divine Androgyne examines balance as form. Not as an idea, but as architecture. A body where opposing forces

are held in the same frame, and transformation becomes the only constant.