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STEEL SEDUCTION
The New Indian Express
|December 26, 2025
The mood of this collection is both sensual and strong, with metal ornamentation once again taking centre stage as the creative playground
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WHAT DOES BEAUTY look like when the lights go out? What does rebellion look like when no one is watching? Qbik's new festive drop, Disco Discord, celebrates glittering, shredded, immortal reminders that defiance never goes out of style.
It is a tribute to the contradictory beauty of both satin and metal against the skin.
Satin saris flow endlessly alongside Qbik's cult-favourite underwired blouses, painstakingly reimagined every year. Hand-embroidered gilets speak a global silhouette yet remain rooted at home. In menswear, sharp-cut tuxedos and pleated trousers are honed to near-architectural precision. And yet, even in this sharpness, the collection's temper is dictated by the transformative surface treatments of metal elements crafted entirely in-house.
This story is from the December 26, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express.
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