Istituto Marangoni Mumbai stepped into New York Fashion Week and brought in lively creative energy. 

Across the electric, most celebrated season, a cohort of students from the school took their place within the inner workings of six runway presentations: Christian Cowan, Marika Suzuki, Ao Miyasaka, Perry Jones, Carlton Jones, and Leblanc Studios. One amongst them, Cassandra Fernandes, went a step further, stepping onto the Marika Suzuki runway herself. Six collections. Six distinct worlds of craft, vision, and spectacle, each one demanding precision, discretion, and a distinct fashion sense that cannot be borrowed or rehearsed. 

Working in close collaboration with The Riviere Agency and Global Fashion Collective and guided throughout by Siddharth Madan and Anushka Madan of Global Fashion Incubator, the students moved fluidly between the visible and invisible architecture of the shows. Front of house, guests were received, among them actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and recording artist Bebe Rexha, with composure. 

IMstudents' Experience at New York Fashion Week 

Students from Marangoni Mumbai found their time at New York Fashion Week to be both enriching and transformative, each drawing unique insights from the immersion into one of fashion’s most influential stages 

For Mokshita Katariya, New York Fashion Week crystallised fashion not merely as aesthetics, but as strategy, a dynamic industry that rewards those who learn to read both its artistry and its logic simultaneously. For Kamya Chawla, immersion from the earliest preparations through to the final post-show hours offered a complete and rare view of how a collection is brought into being. For Swarali, the experience was one of abundance of people to meet, of things to learn, of a world that felt, in the best possible way, inexhaustible. For Deepanshii, it was New York itself, a city long held as a personal aspiration that amplified every moment. And for Vaidehi, it was the discovery that confidence is built not in theory, but in the doing. 

One Step Further: Cassandra Fernandes on the Marika Suzuki Runway

There are experiences that shape a career, and then there are moments that define it. For Cassandra Dellrine Fernandes, a first year Fashion Business student at Istituto Marangoni Mumbai, New York Fashion Week offered more than just an experience as she walked the runway. 

Selected to walk the runway for designer Marika Suzuki, Cassandra did not simply witness the season; but became part of its story. Dressed in a look from the collection, stepped onto one of fashion's most scrutinised stages and carried with her something that the industry recognises immediately and values deeply: the rare ability to embody a designer's vision, not just comprehend it. 

Cassandra described the experience as cinematic a moment in which time appeared to slow, and years of study, observation, and passion collapsed into a single, lucid act of presence. To walk for Marika Suzuki at New York Fashion Week, as a Fashion Business student, is to demonstrate precisely what distinguishes an Istituto Marangoni Mumbai education: the understanding that fashion is never only commercial, and never only creative it is always, irreducibly, both. 

Istituto Marangoni Mumbai does not merely prepare students for the industry; it places them, with intention and rigour, at its very centre.