Paris has the Champs-Élysées. London has Bond Street. And now, Mumbai has Kala Ghoda; with Galeries Lafayette Mumbai anchoring a new kind of luxury district. Luxury shopping in Mumbai just got a new postcode, and we love it.
The storied Parisian retailer has opened its first Indian flagship in Mumbai, in partnership with the Aditya Birla Group. Inside, the flagship itself is a study in duality: 90,000 square feet of Parisian polish reinterpreted through an Indian lens. Designed by London-based Virgile + Partners, the space houses more than 250 global brands. Which ones? Thom Browne, Victoria Beckham, and eight Indian designers curated to sit comfortably alongside their European counterparts.
“Opening our first store in Mumbai is a defining moment for Galeries Lafayette and a new chapter in our international journey,” said Nicolas Houzé, Executive Chairman of the Galeries Lafayette Group. “Partnering with the Aditya Birla Group, a renowned family-owned conglomerate whose values resonate with ours, gives this project a particularly strong foundation.”
The store officially opens next month, marks a defining moment for India’s luxury landscape. As Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, put it, “Luxury in India today stands at the threshold of transformation.” The numbers back that up: India’s luxury market is projected to reach USD 85 billion by 2030. It’s driven by rising affluence, digital influence, and a generation of consumers who are as comfortable at Dior in Paris as they are at homegrown ateliers in Mumbai.
If Paris has long defined what luxury looks like. And Mumbai is now shaping what it feels like: confident, curious, and completely self-assured. Galeries Lafayette Mumbai reflects just that.
All images courtesy: Galeries Lafayette Mumbai. Photographed by: Talib Chitalwala