HUEMN returned to the runway with SS’26 in collaboration with the all-new Tata Sierra — staged at Mukesh Mills, a space charged with history and cinematic memory. A 300-metre runway cut through the length of the mill and opened out to the sea, making the location part of the performance. A live piano score composed and performed by Kalmi built the sonic architecture of the night, shifting with the silhouettes, dissolving into tension and calm as the show unfolded.
The Tata Sierra x HUEMN collaboration was brought to life by India’s women’s cricket team captain, Harmanpreet Kaur, who graced the runway as the showstopper.
A HUEMN show is never just a procession of clothes. It is theatre and movement, silence and confrontation, humour and grief, engineering and emotion. SS’26 carried that same frequency — figures appearing through beams of concentrated light, disappearing into shadow, re-emerging with texture, weight, structure and attitude.
Tata Sierra × HUEMN — The Capsule
The evening celebrated the return of a legend — the Tata Sierra. For the occasion, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles and HUEMN collaborated on a capsule that interprets Sierra’s identity in textile form. The collaboration brings together two Indian brands rooted in innovation, engineering, material intelligence and cultural memory.
The limited-edition drop features a cap, T-shirt and jacket created by HUEMN.
The T-Shirt: The horse snout—a recurring emblem bridging HUEMN and Tata Sierra, commands the stage on a reimagined HUEMN silhouette. Inside it, a cartographic map of the factory where legends are forged, etched in Sierra’s signature yellow. Layered terrains—forests, oceans, winding roads, and the Sierra Nevada peaks—form an artwork that feels like a journey. Its tactile surface whispers of rugged paths and untamed freedom.
The Jacket
Across its canvas, the hidden horse motif gallops through a mist-kissed dawn. The front of the car is abstracted into the skyline — landscape and machinery in the same composition.
The Cap
Sierra’s signature yellow, minimal linework from the rear of the vehicle, and the HUEMN logo embroidered on the side — a narrow-hooded, six-panel silhouette built with restraint.
Pranav Kirti Misra, Co-Founder and Creative Director, HUEMN:
“The Tata Sierra has always carried a distinct personality — stripped-back, purposeful and instantly recognizable. Being part of its return meant translating that energy into our language. For many of us, the Tata Sierra is something we grew up seeing on the road. The pieces in this capsule come from the same place of structure, confidence and memory working together. It has been a special collaboration with Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles.”
SS’26 — The Collection
This showcase marks HUEMN’s 13th year — a trajectory that has taken the label from an independent studio into the global conversation on design, identity and contemporary culture. It reinforces what HUEMN has believed from the beginning: a runway is not an annual obligation; it is a place to speak when there is something worth saying.
“Across 13 years, I have seen HUEMN transform. I describe it as a progressive sceptic — it is never the same for too long. This is a new chapter. HUEMN is a brand built on contrast. There is beauty and death in the same conversation. Pain and joy. Love and betrayal. You see that in silhouettes, textures and prints throughout the collection,” says Misra.
In SS’26, comfort, luxury and craft speak one language. Known for oversized streetwear and textured surfaces, HUEMN shifts into precision tailoring, refined construction and expanded surface techniques.
New silhouettes appear: sculpted jackets, tailored drapes and structures built for day-to-night dressing — clothing designed for stance and presence.
The HUEMN Sari Silhouette
HUEMN’s double-pallu hybrid sari is an iconic silhouette, introduced in 2022 and now part of design conversations worldwide. For SS’26, HUEMN presents a single-piece, pre-stitched sari with a reimagined blouse — or the absence of one, returning to how saris were originally worn. It can be slipped on in under a minute. The piece holds softness and structure together, effortless in movement and true to the spirit of the sari.
The Hand and The Motif
“My love for chikankari is rooted in where I come from — Lucknow. I have seen my mother embroider her saris with precision and pride, and my father wear kurtas with tone-on-tone detail. On wool suiting and denim, the same craft behaves differently.
The motifs carry beauty and death together — bones and flowers embroidered quietly. At first glance the work looks traditional, and when you look closer, you realise what it is made of. Technically, a thicker, coarser material takes more time to embroider, but the result feels both Indian and global,” shares Misra.
Apart from chikankari, aari, dabka, zardozi, and French knots also appear through the collection.
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