On July 8, Chanel didn’t show: she meditated. A studio, a bow. Willo Perron designed an intimate, unfussy decor. Everything was held in restraint. No break.A breath of continuity.Tweed, wheat, the freedom of the female body:so many signs placed like offerings. It wasn’t a demonstration.It was a passage.The discreet song of a house awaiting its …
Haute Couture is not a set. It is a naked demand.It survives only through excellence.And excellence, today, is faltering. Artistic directors succeed one another like lightning.Heritage faces disruption.Craftsmanship resists industry.Silence responds to overkill.Haute Couture has become a barometer of the world. Chanel offered a swan song.A chiaroscuro studio.Willo Perron created an intimate setting.A gesture of …
From Brancusi to Baker: where spirit and structure meet Paris, January 28, 2025 — Within the sacred rhythm of Haute Couture Week, Stéphane Rolland unveiled a collection entitled Origines. From Brancusi to Baker — a dialogue between two symbolic forces: the free and sensual energy of Josephine Baker, and the abstract, sculptural purity of Constantin …
On my site, « Haute Couture: the eighth art, » I love to decipher those moments when fashion transcends clothing to touch the artistic. Elie Saab’s Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 collection, titled « Portrait of a Dream », is precisely one of those magical instances. What Saab offers us here is a total immersion in an « Impressionist garden. » I …
Late January 2025, the renovated Grand Palais pulsed with the rhythm of the CHANEL Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 show. A doubly symbolic moment, I find: not only celebrating the house’s 110 years in this supreme art form that is Haute Couture, but also a collection born in the interim, designed by the in-house studio while …
Paris, late January. Haute Couture Week is in full swing, and all eyes are on Dior. On January 27th , Maria Grazia Chiuri unveiled her vision for Spring/Summer 2025, a collection conceived as a deep dive into « sartorial memory. » Far from a simple retrospective, the ambition was to create a dialogue between eras, to « disrupt …
Paris Haute Couture Week is always a special moment, a bubble where the most exquisite craftsmanship meets the wildest imagination. But let’s be honest, some shows resonate more than others. Franck Sorbier’s, presented this January 29th for Spring/Summer 2025, was definitely one of those. With his collection titled « Symphonie Barbare » (Barbarian Symphony), the designer offered …
For the Spring-Summer 2025 Haute Couture season in Paris, Spanish designer Juana Martin, the only woman from her country admitted to the official calendar , presented her collection « Identidad ». More than just a collection, it is a vibrant manifesto for authenticity and artisanal craftsmanship , a response to a fashion world sometimes disconnected from its …
Imagine: the curtain rises at the Théâtre Mogador, not for a musical, but for an extraordinary Haute Couture show. On Tuesday, January 28, 2025, Julien Fournié invited us to his « First Circus, » a Spring/Summer 2025 collection that celebrated much more than fashion. It was a personal event, marking the designer’s 50th birthday and the 16th …
