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For its Spring ‘25 pre-collection, Maison Jean-Paul Gaultier celebrates the art of reinvention through hybrid evolutions of its legacy codes. Driven by the expertise of Gaultier’s in-house studio, this collection explores a rebelliously reductive process that sharpens the focus of its ready-to-wear line. In the incisive hands of the atelier, heritage shapes are shrunken, expanded, flattened and rearranged with a punk precision that is the very essence of JPG. A shuffle of volumes and characters, maximal and minimal, it is a collection that uses the Gaultier language in a new way, exposing its codes to radical variations.

In 1995, the torrid affair of a sailor and a showgirl swept across tv screens, stirring the imagination of a generation. The first of many Jean-Baptiste Mondino campaigns for Jean-Paul Gaultier, Le Mâle exposed the subversive and cinematic universe that defines the brand to this day.
Imagined as ‘Gaultier in a bottle’ the extracts the codes of this visual landmark to compose its signature blend of craft and creativity. From the archetypal heroes, to the smoked marinière bottle and chrome can, the distilled details of Le Mâle are familiar accents in a high-contrast collection.

Through the shaded lens of Casper Sejersen, the deconstruction and reconstruction of everyday archetypes produce pin-ups for a new world. Both sailor and showgirl, strong and soft, formal and fluid, the season’s silhouettes are a cut-up of wardrobe essentials chiseled by couture savoir-faire.
In the reverted seams of pin-stripe suiting, the extreme proportions of denim separates and the injections of corsetry and lingerie emerges a renewed definition of power dressing. Micro-bombers meet maxi-pant overalls and business bustiers that blur the line between function and fantasy. In the warm abstraction of a white background, spliced patterns and studied transparencies are instruments of a modular wardrobe that reflects the diversity of contemporary identities.

Beyond craft or concept, this collection finds its roots in the personality behind JPG. Mischievous, masterful, modern - it is high-fashion with a side of fun, purpose at play.
As the sequence unfolds, a flurry of cone-cupped gowns, twisted marinières and painted outerwear offer extraordinary solutions to the experience of ordinary life.
Throughout, the graphic and trompe-l’oeil prints of second-skin mesh are stretched and layered on the body, revealing its surreal sensuality. Like glitches on a tv screen, flashes of a distant daydream, these vivid sensations pay tribute to the art of illusion and the transformative power of fashion.

For Sportmax’s Resort 2025 collection, it wasn’t about an illusive theme or projection of what a woman could be, but rather a love letter to who she really is, her objective desires and what best suits her multitude of realities, now. It’s about contemporary ideals expanding on what was always there, drawing from its core values of dynamic movement and smart design, with the confidence to deep dive into its own DNA and extract what’s inherently right. Presented as a lookbook, she’s captured in a series of head-to-toe moments with high-impact, and always with maximum attitude.

The collection centres itself at the crossroads of minimalism and maximalism, offering a comprehensive scope of wardrobe essentials, ready-to-wear pieces with an elevated perspective on real-world dressing. The silhouettes are slim but supple in stretch jersey and wool, with relaxed volume added to the shoulders of draped coats and croc-embossed jackets that reenforces their stature. A spotlight on sensual tailoring sees new suiting as daily armour, both sharp and fluid, and proportioned high and low, making contemporary allusions to the archive in a pair of black and grey power-suits. Dresses are about ease and comfort, the types of pieces you put on and are already impeccably dressed, some adorned with golden stud hardware or a modernised leopard print.

Refining to its core essentials within the world of accessories, Sportmax unveils a new series of bags, shoes, belts, jewellery and eyewear that match the desires of their woman of today. Playing with symbols in a modern way, the new “S” hardware appears across straps and buckles like a new genre of jewellery to be mixed and matched. The collection marks the debut of the puffed bag, an integral elaboration on the brand’s soft codes in padded leather like a plush pillow that can be worn in multiple ways for a variety of needs. It also reveals the new draped leather pump with a viable secret — a wide heel from the back for stability, and a towering stiletto profile with distinctive edge.

BIRKENSTOCK 1774 presents Eternal Sunshine, a collection in tribute to Los Angeles and its eclectic energy that has transcended the eras. The 4 part campaign photographed by Clara Balzary captures the lifestyles of 3 Angelenos in a series of blissed-out scenarios, wearing the new repertoire of shapes and fabrics in citrus hues mixed with shades of blue, olive and burgundy to evoke memories of endless summers under the sun.

The season’s materials are made with specialised techniques that contrast rustic with pop, modern with retro; reminiscing Southern California’s nostalgic attributes of the later 20th century. Spray-painted raffia is a natural homage to surf culture’s Golden Age of the 1960’s. A nod to plexiglass interior design of the 1970’s imagines styles in milky PVC that purposely melds with the unique skin tone of the wearer. The 80’s come out in glazed leather with a luxurious and slick hand that recalls sweaty summer nights, while stone-washed denim is made to age and soften over time, resulting in the lived-in comfort of the 90’s.

Eternal Sunshine introduces an exclusive shape to the 1774 universe: Eliscu, a testament to the LA’s laid-back nature that transforms a clog silhouette into the ideal home shoe well-adapted to be worn outdoors. Eliscu is made in light and dark washed denim with leather covered footbeds along with a reinterpretation of 1774’s Sylt slide sandal, both quilted with contrast stitching classical of denim workwear.

The collection celebrates the BIRKENSTOCK archive by featuring icons and archetypes Arizona, Milano and Florida in new fabrications and finishings such as leather piping and signature monochromatic buckles, as well as an appearance of signature cork footbeds that honour the brand’s core values.

A tale of self-discovery set in the city that fashioned revolution and haute couture, Nicolas di Felice’s inaugural collection for Jean-Paul Gaultier reenacts the first steps of an outsider in the Big City and the forgotten chapters of his own coming-of-age.

Through twisted, decortiqué geometry, their abstract collaboration explores the imaginary potential of reality. Unraveled silhouettes strip couture archetypes to the bone, revealing their common purpose. Ode to the foundations of the House that Jean-Paul built - to the precision, the handwork, the skill behind the frill - this collection exposes the anatomy of an iconoclastic legacy.

In the radical practice of his craft, Di Felice draws focus on the humanistic roots of the JPG House and invites the public in. Removed from reality, the ritual of undress carries a tribute to the silent heroes of our trade. Tiny sparks in the dark, the shiny hardware behind the seams remind us that humble beginnings often lead the way to brighter days…

Clean, cut, confidential, the Courrèges FW’24 Men’s and Women’s pre-collection seizes mementos of movement within the construction of an essential wardrobe. In the exactitude of tailored shapes and impeccable fabrics, Nicolas di Felice dispels sensual derivations, formal opportunities for the body to explore its exposure.
A natural evolution of his past collections, the season is embodied by a motley cast of characters that provide insight into his eclectic visual repertoire. From the perverse bourgeoise, or the wayward sailor, to the leather boys and girls and their post-punk counterparts, each archetype mirrors the duality of a vision that balances precision and subversion. Referencing both the House’s daring heritage and di Felice’s personal library of underground fetishes, this collection is a study on public expressions of private desires.

The story opens on the prim outlines of a Prince-of-Wales suit coat and pencil skirt that zip - an unzip- to the body’s will. Open slit sleeves renew key details of FW’23, while a jetted pocket injected under the navel can be seen throughout, serving a risqué take on practicality. The season’s styles follow an organically unisexe approach, with convertible jersey tanks and rebooted vinyl and crepe classics meshing with contemporary volumes and an assorted offering of the Holy Bag. First seen on the SS’24, this new House classic is now available in micro and maxi sizes and an extended range of colours and fabrications.

As the narrative unfolds, a series of drop-front pants evoke Querelle-like sailors - an intertwined fantasy of boys in uniform cruising the night. Beyond pristine first impressions, the season’s silhouettes manifest a desire to touch, to run wild. Polo shirts and dresses are worn open and draped over the shoulders to signal loose intentions. Deep plunging necklines and slashed bodices open the heart to a fleeting encounter, while a fur-lined wind-breaker heightens the sensorial quality of the collection.

An overblown Courrèges logo towers over of a cylindric silo, its door, left purposefully ajar, inviting the curious few to venture in. In its center, a freshly-cast square is coated with the whisper of desert winds, filling the space with an irrepressible rush of adventure.

The Courrèges class of ’24 turns conventional theory on its head, starting with its secular house codes. Signature geometry is warped into fluid, polyvalent shapes that reclaim the body’s agency and open each garment to its interpretation. Campus archetypes are reworked into experimental silhouettes, their hybrid construction expressing the body’s desire to be free. Slouchy polo dresses in cotton piqué, oversized Harrington vests and fitted biker jackets are spliced and zipped asymmetrically to articulate deconstructed ideals. As our tribe sets up camp, cotton canvas pieces exhibit a mastery of technical engineering that can morph a military skirt into a hooded mini dress in a moment’s need.

In its final chapter, the collection heightens the holistic perspectives introduced in the SS’24 pre-collection, sharpening di Felice’s vision of a spiritual quest captured in the unfolding of a fashion show. As necklines are opened or funnelled upward, the body’s posture broadens powerfully, signalling the advent of newfound beliefs. New Age symbols pay tribute to the elements, ray-like motifs adorning leather armours, sand and metal transforming into silver and glass breast-plates that celebrate a lineage of star-bound amazones.

The second act of Nicolas di Felice’s coming-of-age epic, Courrèges SS’24 collection questions notions of authority and norm, revising symbols of male-led history through an empowering tale of female pioneers. Their first steps on virgin land shatter the moon-like surface, carving a fissured road that chronicles each passing stride. A tense, whistling melody borrows from spaghetti western scores, its complex, acid-tinged layers conjured by house composer, Sene and di Felice himself. Imagined by artist Remy Brière, this entropic stage takes after the stripped-back strategies of Land Art, its brittle form echoing the clashing encounter of Mind and Nature. In this sculptural framework, the body strives to perform geometry, its accidental imprints delineating an infinite road forward. ‘Let me tell you a story’ breathes the voice of an omniscient narrator as the crackle of clay weaves into the spiralling soundscape.

Both defined and emancipated from their education, our heroic graduates brave the road ahead with self-servient optimism. In a closing blast of artificial sunlight, the tenuous balance of comfort and doubt, permanence and revolt is the lesson their journey leaves behind. Though unsure of its destination, this staged exodus dispels a universal message of hope captured in the alchemy of light, movement and imagination. Whatever lays beyond is just a matter of faith.

Muted monochromes of morning skies, of daily commutes and grey crowds caught in the virtual bubbles at the tip of their thumbs. In the static of contemporary life, this constellation of blue-lit screens composes a promise that is the premise of Courrèges’ FW’23 Men’s and Women’s pre-collection.

This season, Nicolas Di Felice has defined a layered evolution of the Courrèges wardrobe - a composite uniform engineered for a secret community that questions its experience of the daily grind. This post-modern approach to Courrèges’ essential codes is led by deconstructed notions of functionality. Elbows are slit and zipped to cloak a jacket over busy arms, crisp chiné slacks are fused with a miniskirt with punk-like gusto, exposing the body in unexpected places.

An ‘all-seeing’ Eye inhabits the collection’s unisex jersey separates, like a comforting sign guiding us forward. Neo-camouflage tortoise-shell and seditious silk-screen prints meet office-wear staples that fit the hybrid realities of a new generation of professionals.

Courrèges’ signature geometry is subverted through dissonant materials: heritage crepe is met with punk-ish wool caviar and glimpses of technical lingerie woven from an archival pattern. Combat boots are fashioned in stretch leather and worn thigh-high on men, blurring tropes of gender and tradition. It is convertible daywear seen through Nicolas Di Felice’s twisted take on tailoring.

The silhouettes are paired with varied iterations of the new ‘Cloud Bag’, a minimal shoulder bag reworked from a classic case bag into a streamlined and pillowy essential.
Knuckle armours and oversized ‘satellite dish’ earrings complete the looks, amplifying the atmosphere of dissidence.
 
This collection is presented on January 20th, 2023 in an ephemeral space in the Marais. Its set is designed by French artist Rémy Brière: tubular white metal sculptures emulate the articulated shapes of telephone antennas. Their mechanical arms are fit with screens that provide individual windows into the collection. A flock of flags chants the collection’s chorus line, a semantic motif developed by Courrèges’ house composer, Sene.
 
From the unrest of dissolving days comes a renewed spirit of community invigorated by a collective drive to reclaim the present: « United Resistance, Together in the Here and Now »

For FW’22, 1309SR stages its campaign in the familiar scenography of an apartment, a rat-pack of idle idols repose in the vibrations of youthful certitude.
Lingering in the lust of fresh memories of delight, they push pause on the continuous
droning of the outside world to collapse into one another entirely…

A silhouette is built from the accessories, inward.
No more is needed to proclaim their character; It is a unique look for the unique individual. Each are adorned in innovative new styles and variations, melded together in an unabashed clash of combinations.