No more than a fading shape
Category: Apparel
Competitions: Fashion Competition 2025
My work explores how garments and materials can keep the trace of an absent body, suspended between disappearance and persistence. Through transformative processes, I seek to express the tension between decay and preservation, using raw or worn materials that evoke a memory in flux. In this vision, the project investigates the expressive potential of paper. By using recycled paper, I develop a series of manipulated and stiffened pieces, transforming this material into self supporting forms. This act of solidification highlights the dual nature of the material both vulnerable and resilient. This piece revisits the codes of the coat, reduced to their minimal expression: only the structural volume of the shoulder pads and a fragment from a previous project remain. Theses elements are the sole anchors of the construction, wich balances on the verge of collapse and support. This formal choice reflects a desire to question the identity of the garment through absence and memory. This approach embraces reuse through the recycling of paper, the reintegration of past project and the corporeal reappropriation of material emphasizing the impact of the natural in the creative process. The garment becomes a shifting archive, where the material retains and transforms the narratives embedded in its fibers, wavering between erasure and reappearance.
