Hong Kong, Jan. 28 -- Ahead of his digital show for the Paris Couture Week 2021, we talk to the designer Rahul Mishra about his mushrooming creative expression, his concepts of sustainability and the recent collaboration with Swarovski Confluence.

"When the last tree is felled, life will sprout from the cracks and blanket what is left behind. The starry night will conspire with crystal dew drops and concoct an array of bright hued mushrooms," reads the poetic release for Rahul Mishra's Couture Spring 2021 collection. Inspired by the sprouting of mushrooms in hostile land and how they grow without any external nourishment. The collection, titled 'The Dawn' is a statement on how despite all the damage and neglect we inflict on the earth it...