ALAINPAUL FALL / WINTER 2025 [ PERFORMER ] скачать в хорошем качестве

ALAINPAUL FALL / WINTER 2025 [ PERFORMER ]

The roles we perform in life are illustrated in the ways we dress. From formal to casual – from on-duty to off-duty – our wardrobe curations reflect the dualities conditional to modern life. For Fall-Winter 2025, Alain Paul mirrors this mentality in the circumstances of the performer central to his practice. Through explorations of the dancer’s dress codes on-stage and off-stage – both inescapably linked to the craft and its physicality – the two states of dress are expressed in tensions between the formal and theatrical versus the casual and the intimate. The dualities are conveyed in gestural and emotional silhouettes founded in androgynous dialogues between form and freedom. A type of performance in its own right, the impact of wearing formalwear is challenged in tailoring stripped of its components of formality – lapels, collars, pockets – and paired with garments contradictory in nature. Suits and coats are crafted from traceable wools and cashmeres or repurposed from deadstock luxury wools. Capturing a dancer’s interplay between performance and reality, padded nylon outerwear and sculptural basculé-shaped tops, dresses and skirts in heavy silk draw on the relationship between movement and stillness, reflecting the way a performer moves and feels in the real world. Expanding on the notion of the off-duty performer forever conditioned by the all-consuming physicality of their craft, fixed-movement dresses, skirts, tops and trousers in recycled creased nylons, silks and cottons are draped and stitched to evolve with the body’s movements, contracting and folding with fluid motion. Similarly, pivoter garments – tops and long skirts in tailoring wool and coating wools as well as silk – shift and pivot on the body, amplifying movements and gestures while challenging the conventions of physical proportion and manipulating notions of symmetry and balance. Portraying the way in which a performer sheds their on-stage persona in order to return to their real-life self, pleated and ruffled dresses and shirts appear to unravel on the body. Echoing a similar feeling, three-dimensional dresses and tops are irregularly knitted from repurposed deadstock stockings and tights creating silhouettes that blur the lines between form and movement. The relationship between stage and reality is further reflected in a leather carcoat upcycled from timeworn vintage pieces, and in distressed and hand-painted denim pieces. They serve as a tribute to the weariness and resilience inherent to a performer’s career. Photo @lucatombolini Makeup @mariaduhart using @clarinsofficial Hair @louisghewy using @ghdfrance @schwarzkopfpro @schwarzkopf Casting @danielvdg @andrea_prato Music @sen_studio in collaboration with by Mikael Karlsson from and Rough State Sound. The score includes music from “Paper Plane” and “Tyll” by Mikael Karlsson, written for choreographers Mari Carrasco and Alexander Ekman. Production @experiential.h Light Design @hydradesign__ Olfactive universe @lelabofragrances @kohlerparis Press @karlaotto