The most important idea in Sachin & Babi this season was “raised day dressing”, said Babi Ahluwalia of the spring collection she made with her husband. The couple has a good grasp on the night market, she said, so now “there is more confidence to pursue more categories after that focus.”
They shot this lookbook on the kind of house that they present their customers who visit a party or event – and the kind in which we all want to live to be honest. “It is important to see her in her environment,” Babi explained. What day dressing means at Sachin & Babi is that the characteristic flowers of the Ahluwalias now in popeline and cotton dresses and blouses are combined with playful and youthful short skirts – a welcome dose of sparkling and frisson on a blouse with pure panels covered with pearls. The usual sensitivity of Sachin & Babi, colorful but refined, remains, but here with the pragmatism of a simple shirtdress, or with the lightness of pure printed flowers.