Bidding goodbye to 1427, Bengalis are ready to welcome 1428, with much love and hope. Keeping the color palette of red and white in mind that is synonymous with Bengal, House of Debaarun has launched its new collection called Red Riding Hood which was also showcased at FDCI X Lakme Fashion Week this year.

With this collection, fashion designer Debaarun Mukherjee intertwined and interpreted the Red Riding Hood story in his own way.

This story has always inspired his imagination and made him ask many questions: the mystery behind the red hood, the scary woods, the grandmother, the huntsman, and over everything else, the stalker “wolf”.

In his version of this tale, Red Riding Hood visits her sister in the wood and the wolf stalks the beautiful Red Riding Hood and attacks the two sisters. They lock it in the cottage and run to seek help from the huntsman, but they stop midway. An epiphany occurs and the sisters decide to tackle the big bad wolf themselves and in a display of courage and strength, they proceed to fight it and win over it.

This adaptation of Red Riding Hood is Debaarun’s own representation of the power that women have in today’s society, how they can protect themselves even if they take their own course and decide to choose their own fate.

Silks, chiffon and weaved fabric adorned the cast in this collection and the monochrome palette of red and white denotes power, courage, and purity.

The shoot featured models Tamori Chaudhuri, Tanisha De, Rupam Das, Nischay Singh, and Rana Mukherjee with actress Sauraseni Maitra. The styling has been done by Anupam Chatterjee and jewelry by Avama. The shoot has been captured by Somnath Roy.