Semiotics

This study investigates the intersection of semiotics, minimalism, and gender neutrality within the evolving landscape of Indian fashion. As minimalism gains prominence, influenced by sustainability and global fashion discourses, Indian designers and consumers are reinterpreting traditional codes through simpler silhouettes, muted color palettes, and versatile forms. Drawing on theoretical frameworks such as Halliday’s meta functional theory and concepts of signifier/signified, the paper examines how clothing in India acts as a non-verbal communicative system, where garments like khadi kurtas or fluid sarees encode meanings of heritage, resistance, identity, and modernity. In India where traditional practices of handloom weaving and natural dyeing intersect with modern design, and minimalist fashion offers a platform to reimagine cultural traditions in sustainable ways. How minimalism as a statement got prominent in Indian culture. Ultimately, it reveals how minimalist fashion in India is not a rejection of culture, but a rearticulation of it, using the language of semiotics to navigate expressions of self, sustainability, and social fluidity.