Gul Sohrab is a Delhi-based clothing label founded by Amit Malhotra and Saurabh Kumar, built around handwoven textiles, oversized silhouettes, and a deeply tactile approach to dressing. The brand moves through relaxed tailoring, wrapped forms, pleated trousers, long shirts, skirts, reversible jackets, and layered separates that pull from everyday Indian clothing traditions like checks, lungi-inspired drapes, gamcha references, and vintage silks. The name itself combines the identities of its founders: “Gul,” Amit’s childhood nickname meaning flower or rose, and “Sohrab,” a name associated with a warrior figure. That balance between softness and rigid tailoring runs through the label’s aesthetics — fluid fabrics pushed into architectural shapes, delicate handwoven textiles cut into sharp, almost severe silhouettes.

The label emerged after Amit left a long career in publishing and book design, while Saurabh brought years of technical fashion experience from brands like Shantnu & Nikhil, Anita Dongre, and AMPM. Saurabh develops silhouettes, patterns, and construction, often working late into the night surrounded by fabric swatches and half-finished prototypes. Amit shapes the brand's visual language — casting, photography, styling, image-making, and communication. Together they also handle the unglamorous parts: steaming garments, packing orders, sourcing fabric, managing dispatches. 

The garments at Gul Sohrab are technically unisex, but the label speaks about it in terms of “form” rather than a category of identity. Shirts stretch into tunics, skirts are wrapped with the ease of lungis, jackets sit boxy and architectural on any body type, and trousers fall into exaggerated pleats with almost theatrical volume. Their silhouettes are loose, layered, and breathable, often carrying traces of older Indian dressing traditions without becoming costume-like. Checks appear repeatedly across collections, especially Madras-inspired patterns that reference gamchas, lungis, and everyday Indian textiles. On Gul Sohrab garments, those checks stop looking utilitarian and start feeling strangely elegant.

The brand works extensively with handloom cottons, handwoven raw silks from Bihar, Banarasi weaves, cotton-silk blends, and even vintage Kanjeevaram sarees reconstructed into sharply tailored separates. Their sourcing stretches across multiple textile clusters in India, pulling fabrics from weaving communities and artisanal workshops. The garments often retain the irregularities of handwoven cloth — slubs, uneven textures, softened dye variation — and the designers lean into the charm of those imperfections. There is also a strong sense of reversibility and modular dressing in many pieces: double-breasted coats designed to be styled multiple ways, reversible jackets, wrap silhouettes, layered shirts with detachable elements. 

Visually, the label sits somewhere between old Delhi nostalgia, queer dressing, theatre costume, and post-handloom Indian menswear. Their campaigns are minimal and rarely look over-styled; Amit and Saurabh frequently model the clothes themselves, often inside lived-in domestic spaces filled with books, dogs, paintings, or stacks of fabric, ultimately selling a way of dressing tied to comfort, eccentricity, and emotional attachment to cloth. And yet, the pieces stand out for their singularity. The brand marries the versatility of Indian textiles with hyper-modern, streetwear and lagenlook silhouettes that we’ve come to appreciate in a way that the garments never distance themselves from where the fabrics come from, but they completely shift how those fabrics are perceived.

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