Nakul Bhardwaj: First Indian male model to walk the ramp for Versace |

Twenty-one-year-old Nakul Bhardwaj has created history by being the first male model from India to walk for Italian luxury brand Versace at its Spring Summer 2025 show during Milan Fashion Week. This is a milestone for Indian representation in the world of high fashion and an inspiration for Desi talent to take on global platforms.
Milan Fashion Week turned out to be Nakul’s big opportunity and that marks a great change for Indian aspirants who want to make it big in the world of fashion.Earlier, it was the Western models who dominated the fashion scene, but with big fashion houses like Versace wanting to be the harbinger of change when it comes to changing the landscape of fashion, youngsters like Nakul have a great opportunity to make it big.
Nakul got the chance of a lifetime as he walked the ramp along with other international models who took to the stage for other diverse high-end luxury brands.

Aside from walking on the runway and all those high-fashion catwalks, Nakul deems himself to be a highly competitive person with extreme adrenaline-fuelled sports affinities. He stands tall at 6 feet 3 inches, and fell in love with parkour at a youg age of seven. That is not just a reflection of his physical abilities but also of his adventurous nature. Nakul credits his mother as being very inspirational, saying, “My mother motivates me to work hard and remain consistent.”. I have always loved modeling. I have always looked up to most of the greatest models in business.”

There was all the more noise about Nakul walking at the Versace show since he was joined on the ramp by supermodel Gigi Hadid. Fans and netizens flooded Nakul’s timeline with comments with some of them reading “That’s a long time coming, more for you ahead,” and “That’s huge, man, congratulations.”.
This is, of course not to be forgotten that the success that Nakul has achieved is along the path forged by Avanti Nagrath in 2022, when she emerged as the first Indian female model to open a show for Versace. Together, these feats underline the fact that with time Indian models will have much more lucrative opportunities on the global fashion stage and richness of talent from India.

With Nakul Bhardwaj moving into this new chapter of his life, his is one of those journeys giving hopes to so many aspiring models out there who prove that if you are hardworking, dedicated, and little lucky, you can definitely make your dreams come to life on some of the world’s most prestigious stages.