Éclat de Guerre
Éclat de Guerre reimagines Coco Chanel’s controversial ascent amid the devastation of war: when elegance persisted despite social collapse.
Blending echoes of uniform with elements of Belle Époque refinement, the collection reflects on fashion’s complicity and power in times of conflict.
Through distressed surfaces, layered silhouettes and a fractured take on Chanel’s codes, it questions the morality of luxury in a world unraveling.
This collection doesn’t seek to glorify history, but to dissect it.
Process
Narrative
This Collection unfolds within the paradox of beauty during wartime: a world where privilege remained untouched while entire societies fell apart.
At its core lies the story of Coco Chanel: an orphan who built an empire on the fringes of destruction, navigating the blurred lines between survival, strategy, and silence.
Drawing on her rise during the First World War, the collection examines how fashion can operate as both a mask and a mirror in moments of collective crisis.
Historical silhouettes are deconstructed to reveal what lies beneath: raw seams, disfigured surfaces, and excessive closures express a longing for control amid collapse.
Materials oscillate between opulence and decay. Bouclé, velvet, fur and pearls clash with bloodied canvas, frayed wool, and scorched leather.
Each look weaves together dualities: front-line trauma and bourgeois comfort, feminine softness and militant structure, individual grief and aesthetic distance.
Rather than a homage, this is a provocation. Éclat de Guerre uses visual contradiction to expose the social detachment and moral ambiguity embedded in luxury.
It challenges the wearer, and viewer, to consider what is concealed beneath elegance, and at what cost beauty persists when the world is burning.
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