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KGL LAUNCHES DISNEY COLLAB

Indian fashion label KGL launches a 114-piece Disney collection featuring Mickey & Friends reimagined through surrealist and traditional Indian design elements.

image of KGL's new Disney collaboration featuring Mickey & Friends characters. The 114-piece fashion collection incorporates Indian cultural elements like paisley patterns and temple gates with Disney's iconic characters. The collection includes everyday clothing items and accessories, features gender-neutral designs, and starts at £35. Key details include the collection's surrealist approach, hand embroidery techniques, and the founder's inspiration from both Disney storytelling and Indian visual heritage.
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image of KGL's new Disney collaboration featuring Mickey & Friends characters. The 114-piece fashion collection incorporates Indian cultural elements like paisley patterns and temple gates with Disney's iconic characters. The collection includes everyday clothing items and accessories, features gender-neutral designs, and starts at £35. Key details include the collection's surrealist approach, hand embroidery techniques, and the founder's inspiration from both Disney storytelling and Indian visual heritage.
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image of KGL's new Disney collaboration featuring Mickey & Friends characters. The 114-piece fashion collection incorporates Indian cultural elements like paisley patterns and temple gates with Disney's iconic characters. The collection includes everyday clothing items and accessories, features gender-neutral designs, and starts at £35. Key details include the collection's surrealist approach, hand embroidery techniques, and the founder's inspiration from both Disney storytelling and Indian visual heritage.
KGL
image of KGL's new Disney collaboration featuring Mickey & Friends characters. The 114-piece fashion collection incorporates Indian cultural elements like paisley patterns and temple gates with Disney's iconic characters. The collection includes everyday clothing items and accessories, features gender-neutral designs, and starts at £35. Key details include the collection's surrealist approach, hand embroidery techniques, and the founder's inspiration from both Disney storytelling and Indian visual heritage.
KGL
image of KGL's new Disney collaboration featuring Mickey & Friends characters. The 114-piece fashion collection incorporates Indian cultural elements like paisley patterns and temple gates with Disney's iconic characters. The collection includes everyday clothing items and accessories, features gender-neutral designs, and starts at £35. Key details include the collection's surrealist approach, hand embroidery techniques, and the founder's inspiration from both Disney storytelling and Indian visual heritage.
KGL
image of KGL's new Disney collaboration featuring Mickey & Friends characters. The 114-piece fashion collection incorporates Indian cultural elements like paisley patterns and temple gates with Disney's iconic characters. The collection includes everyday clothing items and accessories, features gender-neutral designs, and starts at £35. Key details include the collection's surrealist approach, hand embroidery techniques, and the founder's inspiration from both Disney storytelling and Indian visual heritage.
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KGL, the Indian fashion label, released a new capsule collection today featuring Disney's Mickey & Friends characters reimagined through a distinctly Indian and surrealist perspective. The collection, titled "A dream that dreamed itself", combines KGL's deconstructed tailoring approach with Disney's classic characters and storytelling.

The 114-piece offering includes everyday essentials like crew-neck jumpers and graphic tees alongside more tailored items such as bodycon dresses and formal suits. Accessories complete the range with leather bags, totes, charms, and caps. Prices for the collection start at £35, with all items available on KGL's website from May 20th.

Founder Kanika Goyal developed the concept by merging her childhood memories of Disney with her cultural background and design sensibilities. "Collaborating with Disney, whose stories I grew up with, was the perfect way to bring together memories, identity and storytelling", Goyal explained in the press release.

The collection incorporates traditional Indian motifs with specific cultural significance. Chilli patterns represent protection, while paisleys symbolize continuity. Temple gate imagery appears as portals to imaginary worlds. These elements appear alongside Disney's familiar characters, creating an unexpected visual dialogue between Western animation icons and Indian visual culture.

One notable piece features Mickey Mouse looking out of a car window only to see Donald Duck reflected back. The surrounding design incorporates stars transitioning into paisley patterns and comets moving across skies that contain Indian script elements, creating what the brand describes as a "fluid, cinematic dreamscape".

The collection emphasizes gender-neutral silhouettes designed for versatility and everyday wear. KGL's production techniques include their signature approaches: deconstructed shapes, repurposed denim, and detailed hand embroidery treatments.

This release represents KGL's attempt to connect with consumers navigating both global popular culture and regional heritage, offering familiar Disney characters through an Indian design lens.

Kristin Kaye

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