What if the feeling of “the one” wasn’t just reserved for finding your person, but for finding the way you want to celebrate, too? With Koi Mil Gaya, Rishi & Vibhuti turned that instinctive certainty into a destination wedding wardrobe that is playful, personal and designed for every chapter of the celebration. “For me, Koi Mil Gaya began with that very instinctive feeling of recognition, when something, or someone, simply feels right,” the duo shares. “Vibhuti and I have been together for years, so the idea of destiny is something we’ve experienced rather than simply imagined.”
Koi Mil Gaya looks beyond the wedding ceremony itself. For Rishi & Vibhuti, a destination wedding is not defined by one grand moment, but by the many smaller ones that build up to it. As they put it, “We looked at the wedding as an entire journey rather than a single photograph.” They add, “A destination wedding has so many different moods, arriving, dressing up, meeting friends, playing games, dancing, getting emotional, celebrating and finally letting loose.”
“We wanted the fashion to participate in the fun rather than dictate it.”
That idea of dressing for the moment comes through in Manoranjan, the more playful chapter of the collection, where Matcha Mahjong, cricket and Ludo become part of the wedding experience. Rather than creating clothes that simply look good in photographs, Rishi & Vibhuti wanted pieces that could keep up with everything happening around them. “I think the key is to design clothes that allow you to actually live in them,” they say. The same thought shapes the wardrobe across different celebrations, with each occasion calling for its own mood and energy. “A sundowner calls for something effortless and fluid; a carnival can be louder, more playful and maximalist. Garba naturally brings movement, colour and rhythm into the clothes, while the wedding ceremony demands a certain sense of grandeur and emotion.”
Destination weddings also create room for a more personal approach to dressing, giving brides and their tribes the freedom to step outside the usual rules of occasion wear. For Rishi & Vibhuti, that meant building a wardrobe that feels expressive rather than prescriptive. “We wanted the bride and her tribe to have fun with fashion, to mix silhouettes, play with proportions, move between Indian and Western codes and not feel restricted by what a particular ceremony traditionally demands.”
That sense of freedom extends to the way craft is treated within the collection. Rather than presenting Indian craftsmanship as something formal or untouchable, Rishi & Vibhuti bring it into a more relaxed, contemporary context. “We’ve always been interested in taking familiar Indian craftsmanship and giving it a different attitude,” the designers explain. Through shifts in placement, scale and styling, detailed handwork takes on a new energy while still retaining “the soul of Indian craftsmanship.”
The same idea of tradition finding new expressions carries into the campaign, where Garba, Raas-Leela and Bhajan Clubbing come together in one unexpected celebration. It reflects the way contemporary Indian weddings often move fluidly between the familiar and the new, without treating the two as opposites. “Tradition doesn’t necessarily have to exist in isolation,” they say. “We wanted to capture that irreverent, very Indian ability to make traditions our own and celebrate them in completely unexpected ways.”
At its heart, Koi Mil Gaya is less about dressing for a single wedding moment and more about dressing for everything that happens around it. And when it comes to the final look, the designers have one simple brief: “the look you don’t want to take off, something that lets you celebrate until the very last song.”