ve into myself, to the heart of my emotions. And then, to give shape to my inner world. [Inhale, exhale], two. To express through garments this unspeakable feeling of hindrance that has stifled me throughout my development. This feeling of restraint, of constraint ; not being able to be truly myself. Each garments of [UNTITLED] collection evokes, without being literal, a stage of my personal journey, a metaphor for my intimate and progressive quest for freedom. [Inhale, exhale], three. »

As a designer, body is my raw material and garments my medium. I worked directly in 3D and on the body of someone I’m close to, the only person I can share something so personal and intimate with. As things progress, I felt the need to free more and more this body I was working on. To free its movements, to allow it to take up space. More space to breathe. More space to be.
Heavy wools, which were a shield to the body, are getting thinner. Lightweight silk organzas takes more place, and transparency let the body be more visible. Body movements that were hindered by the jewels-clams on the back are released. Coats as armours that constrained the body are getting more fluid, and continue their transformations, to the point where they become pants. They fell off as a moult and reveal a chrysalis, a second skin to protect the blooming of an inner world.

In my collection, 95% of all the materials I used are sourced from deadstocks of the fashion industry that are sourced for their quality, which guarantees a long life time for the garments. I refuse to use leather or animal fur and skins for both ethical and environmental reasons. My entire collection was produced in France by exceptional craftsmen and by myself in Switzerland.

As I wanted to reach a ‘Couture’ level through this collection, without any concessions about design, I partnered with renowned companies :
- Les Ateliers Grandis (FR) to manufacture some of the garments of the collection in a very high standards ;
- Chanel’s Métiers d’Art (Maison Lemarié) (FR) to develop my own organza pleats ;
- Confection du Coglais (FR) to produce my own design of swimwear ;
- The Fabric Sales (BE) to source the perfect and high-quality fabrics, but in a sustainable way, by using only dead-stocks from the industry ;
- Emmetex (IT) to develop different hight-quality labels for my collection.
It was challenging but amazing to work with these high-level professionals and it was a very rewarding experience.