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Meet the five creative talents who are upping the ante on cool menswear in India

Ajay Kumar It used to be that women were colour-crazy and men only wore colourful ties. But today, menswear’s limitless appetite for bright hues has blown that theory out of the water, and no one’s cashing in on the trend better than this moustachioed designer from Bengaluru. Kumar blends bright colours and crazy prints in a way that brings on a happy, trippy acid flashback.