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Ayrton Veloce Profiles illuminate Gaurav Gupta’s Haute Couture Collection in Mumbai

Gaurav Gupta’s Haute Couture Collection was showcased in July 2026 at the Jio World Pavilion 3 in Mumbai, India. The responsibility for delivering a lighting design to match the drama and tone of the avant-garde couturier’s work fell to lighting designer Harshavardhan Pathak, who’s remit was shaped to fit the fashion show’s concept of Lunar & Solar.

Pathak used 118 Ayrton Veloce Profiles, supplied by SSL Media, Mumbai, to create two concentric oval runways for the Collection presentation. The overhead truss was custom-built and positioned to give Pathak the ideal starting point to rig the Veloce Profiles. “The SSL team rigged the Veloces exactly how they were shown in my design”, he says. “This enabled me to focus them from the perfect position in every case, then fine-tune each one using a combination of Veloce’s shutters, focus and zoom to create the perfect oval shaped runways.”

The result was two circles of soft, ethereal light. The stylised, clean lines continued into the performance given by two aerial dancers at the epicentre of the circles, choreographed by international artistic director and founder of performing arts company Natya Nectar Circus De India, Guari Devi.

“I used gobos from the overhead Veloce Profiles to create an orbit effect around a pair of suspended dancers and illuminated them from above in tight circles of light that enhanced the sense of drama and isolation, and introduced a contrast of warm and cool colours to emphasise the Lunar & Solar theme”, explains Pathak. The show was programmed on a GrandMA3 Full Size.

Ulhas Sahasrabuddhe, who led the SSL Media team, states: “We have done many shows with Harsha Pathak in the past years. It was an exciting opportunity to execute this unusual design suggested for the Gaurav Gupta Show. The Ayrton Veloce performed as expected and a special mention must be made for its Blade function, which was the centrepiece of this design. We look forward to adding more Ayrton fixtures in the immediate future.”

Vijay Thaygarajoo, Regional Sales Manager APAC for Ayrton, adds: “We are immensely proud to see the Veloce Profile play such a pivotal role in bringing Harshavardhan Pathak’s vision to life. Harsha’s creative use of the Veloce’s framing and gobos perfectly captured the ethereal drama of the Lunar & Solar theme. Our sincere thanks go to our distributor VMT (Vardhaman Mega-Tech), along with Ulhas Sahasrabuddhe and the team at SSL Media.”

(Photos: Harshavardhan Pathak/Rohit Harshavardhan Pathak)

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