Credits:
Photos: Anne-Charlotte Moulard
Female model: Marie Loridan
Male model: Jade Bayonne
MUA: Tina Piters
Styling: Iris Cartron & Louise Marcaud
SPECIES is a new species of wearable objects designed as a choreography.
These 7 unisex accessories are made for the human body at its most universal, regardless of each and everyone’s morphology.
The conception of each of these accessories was guided by the idea of motion itself: the ritual of a new and spontaneous movement
The typology of each object blends into the narrative form of its evolution, into the interaction, imagined for the body that wears it.
The worn object is no longer inert: it deploys, undulates, transforms, unbinds, and reinvents itself.
It goes beyond function, to become an intimate exchange with the body that carries it.
The bag becomes a belt, the necklace shifts into a visor, the bracelet metamorphoses into a fan… it is in the ephemeral ballet that experience is apprehended.
These objects are handmade in Paris, from revalorised leather (end of stock, scraps…). They are conceived from smooth leather, without any technology or hardware : the raw and naked material acts alone.
Through SPECIES, I wish to offer other horizons to the objects we wear, re-think their traditional typologies, and forget about rigidity of use.
I wish to imagine an accessory that may adapt to lifestyles in perpetual change. Create objects that listen to body dynamics and reconsider their traditional functions.
These plural function objects deploy new possibilities. They tend towards a different vision of the accessory that suggests the pleasure of mobility and explores new possibilities of use.
As an educated product designer (La Cambre in Brussels, The Royal College of Art in London), I learnt to think of objects around their functions.
These functions are what I later wished to unravel, strip, and forget in order to keep only the gesture, the use.
My creative process has been particularly marked by Icelandic aesthetics as well as Japanese refinement.
From my experience of life in Iceland, I have kept the memories of landscapes where raw materials intertwine with soft colors in improbable harmony.
In Japan, I discovered the power of sobriety. Japanese aesthetics make the simplest object’s essence gush forth in the wake of the most simple activity.
Having had the luck to work with Laurent Tijou at Jean-Paul Gaultier and Evelie Mouila at Maison Margiela, jewelry first satisfied my inclinations of intimity with objects.
I then broadened my fields of research to all worn objects, as long as they inspired and sublimated the notion of movement.