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Pero and Barbie Bring Roller Skates and Pink Dream House Vibes to Lakme Runway
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News18•15-10-2026, 11:38
Pero and Barbie Bring Roller Skates and Pink Dream House Vibes to Lakme Runway
- •Designer Aneeth Arora opened Lakme Fashion Week in New Delhi with the global Barbie collaboration titled Dream Dress-Up for Spring Summer 2027.
- •The runway featured a vibrant pink dream house set complete with live dancers, singers, and models gliding on roller skates.
- •The collection blended Barbie pink with traditional Indian crafts, including mashru stripes, West Bengal checks, Banarasi details, and recycled plastic mini Koodai bags.
- •Accessories stole the show with roller-skate shaped purses, beaded pink totes, soccer-ball keychains, and embroidered Barbie and Ken caps.
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The Spring Summer 2027 collection, titled Dream Dress-Up, was showcased at Lakmé Fashion Week in partnership with FDCI at Taj Palace, New Delhi. It featured a joyful, rule-breaking mix of Barbie pink with traditional Indian textiles like West Bengal checks and Banarasi details.
The runway featured live dancers, singers, models gliding on roller skates, and models starting the show standing inside life-size Barbie boxes. The event ended with everyone dancing on their feet.
The collection incorporated mashru stripes as a nod to Barbie's 1959 black-and-white swimsuit, West Bengal checks, and Banarasi details. It also featured mini Koodai bags, which are traditional South Indian baskets reimagined in recycled plastic wire.
