This project was developed during a backpacking journey through South India, a place I have visited since childhood. Returning with a more critical and creative perspective, I became increasingly interested in documenting men and their clothing in everyday life through photography. I was particularly drawn to the colours, textures, and silhouettes present in traditional and contemporary Indian menswear, as well as the visual richness of trucks, temples, and street environments. This body of research is combined with my ongoing interest in men’s tailoring, informed by cinematic representations of masculinity in films such as Casino, Heat, Donnie Brasco, Miami Vice, and the James Bond series. In these works, the construction, fit, and styling of a suit play a crucial role in shaping identity, status, and attitude. The exaggerated luxury, coordinated palettes, and bold presence of tailoring seen on DeNiro in Casino were especially influential in informing the direction of this collection. The project explores how these two visual languages—observational documentation and cinematic tailoring references can be merged. It aims to reinterpret the drape, ornamentation, and colour sensibilities of Indian dress within the structure of Western men’s tailoring. The collection consists of tailored suits, trench coats, and shirts that integrate both structure and fluidity. Fabric selection plays a key role in this synthesis: Jaipur silks are used to in troduce softness and drape, nylons inform outerwear, while shine-coated twills and two-tone silk dupion reinforce the richness and surface complexity associated with both Indian textiles and cinematic suiting.