The super-wide inflatable trousers consist of up to 30 individual latex panels, which are either plain white or arranged in contrasting colour blocks of brick red and forest or mint green.

Although they fit snugly at the waist, they balloon out to double the width of the wearer around the thighs, before finally tapering in again towards the ankles.

This look is achieved by pumping the trousers with air via a seven millimetre-wide inflation valve at the bottom.

"I got the idea when I was playing with my dog and I started thinking about how exaggerated objects must look from such a low angle," explained the designer, who goes by the single name Harikrishnan.

"The thought of him seeing me as a giant figure or not seeing my head at all was intriguing, so I decided to reimagine the people around me through the game of distortion – detached from the stereotypical, pre-determined notions of the human perspective.“

Latex was the perfect material as it stretches and, through its shiny finish, exaggerates the trouser's bulging silhouettes.

For the top half of the looks, Harikrishnan reverted back to slimline cuts, balancing the voluminousness with crisp suit jackets.

These are variously layered or replaced with tank tops and matching shorts that are strung together from hand-carved wooden beads.

To create the pieces, Harikrishnan lived in an artisan community in Channapatna, India, for a month, learning from and working with woodturning and lacquerwork craftsmen.

"This project is about contrasting realities, visuals, materials and approaches," he explained.

"Both Channapatna and latex have a very distinctive appeal.

By reinterpreting it through fashion I wanted to make the material dynamic, flexible and more relevant to a luxury market."