TIL presented STILL BECOMING, the latest collection by designer Ankur Verma, at Lakmé Fashion Week in partnership with the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) on 16 October 2026, at Taj Palace in New Delhi. The collection mixes textile experimentation, intricate handwork and material reuse, and it continues TIL’s exploration of the human body as a living surface that grows, changes and carries time, rather than something static or perfect.

Skin and Moss

For STILL BECOMING, Verma looks at skin in relation to moss: how moss settles onto a surface, spreads slowly, builds texture and creates its own landscape. Like skin, it records its environment and changes with time. Freckles, wrinkles, scars, pigmentation and signs of ageing become markers of growth instead of imperfections to hide.

Textile Terrariums

The garments act as canvases for these changing surfaces, and TIL paints with thread instead of pigment. The label describes the result as “textile terrariums”: miniature ecosystems of thread, texture, fragments and colour that seem to live and evolve on the body.

Waste as the Starting Point

Fabric remnants, katrans, discarded threads and leftover materials are collected, reimagined and painstakingly worked back into the garments, which puts waste at the start of the process instead of the end.

A Palette of Moss, Lime and Scarlet

That approach comes through in a palette of mossy olives, acidic limes, scarlet reds, earthy browns and weathered natural tones. Fluid dresses, shirts, jackets and separates are layered across the body like surfaces collecting traces over time. The collection’s visual language also draws on Lou Lou de la Falaise and Isla van Damme, whose individuality, lived-in beauty and instinctive way of dressing echo TIL’s interest in beauty shaped by experience.

Children on the Runway

The idea of evolution goes beyond the clothes. Children walked the runway as part of the story, tracing a journey from childhood and unmarked beginnings to the layers, memories and experiences gathered through life. The runway became a passage through different moments of becoming, moving from the textures already present on our skin to the experiences that shape us over time.

In Ankur Verma’s Words

With STILL BECOMING, TIL brings together textile craft, material reuse and an intimate look at the changing human body. It proposes a view of beauty that finds meaning not in staying untouched but in the layers and traces gathered over time.