HAUTE COUTURE SUMMER 2017 COLLECTION
“Simplicity is complexity resolved” Constantin Brancusi The body is a vector of expression. In favoring the representation of a body in movement rather than an academic, fixed pose, I seek out the truth that nature offers us and break away from the norm. Within the same collection, I unconsciously link different periods of art history, from Michelangelo to Rodin and, closer to Rodin, to Brancusi. Brancusi’s ovoid sculptures inspire me with an anatomical accuracy that symbolizes the birth of the world. Monumental yet graceful Dômes dresses in gazar and faille are born, as are undulating hoods in the form of haughty manes or pure gold halos encircling the bust. Asymmetrical, the silhouette is deliberately incomplete. A red flame of organza emerges from a hip, or a white one from a breast. Other flames, as if carved from marble, hatch from a Coupole skirt, like the “bird in space” sculpted in 1923. A long, strapless sheath in white wool crepe, like a Carrara column, adorns an Ellipse. Powerfully expressive, the hand sculpts valleys of gazar, collars become cloudy and the curve of a skirt a bronze storm. Like Rodin’s studio, immaculate with plaster casts, this summer 2017 collection is sculptural, eternal and immortal, but never frozen in time or space.
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