Photos par Camille Minieri
HOPE – a collection by Sarkis Sefayan
Presented during Printemps des Créateurs — organized by K Events at the Neo Vogel Art Lab
Presented during Printemps des Créateurs — organized by K Events at the Neo Vogel Art Lab
@lilou_jmt — The Sculpted Whisper
A single twist draws the entire garment into being — a dress in stretch silk satin, born of one continuous gesture.
It clings, flows, and releases in all the right places — a second skin that does not confine, but elevates.
The sensuality of the form is not imposed, but invited — soft curves, strong lines, the architecture of a free body made visible.
She walks, and the silence is filled with grace. This is not a dress; it is a whisper of independence.
@fatima_khattat — The Reverse Corset
Dark as memory, fluid as thought — a siren silhouette, but fractured, undone, reimagined.
The corset, once the emblem of constraint, has slid down the body — now an adornment for the hips, not the ribs.
In silk, voile, tulle, and organza, she moves forward, past tradition, past rigidity.
Her back is bare, her future open. The past does not bind her; it propels her.
@myr.th22 — The Velvet Dissonance
Red and black, like two melodies woven in counterpoint — jersey and satin draped in conversation.
This is a night at the opera where the curtain never closes, where fire dances with mystery.
A silhouette that leans into contradiction: passionate and composed, fiery and soft.
She does not perform — she possesses. Every step is a story she keeps and transforms.
@theitezza — The Holographic Manifesto
Like the shimmer of a thought just out of reach, this gown shifts and burns in red-black silk.
Corseted, yes — but not tamed. The structure is theatrical, defiant, proud.
A dramatic drape swells from the waist like a storm brewing in silk.
Her uniqueness is not something to hide; it is something to announce.
@thais.abd — The Tender Armor
A coat that blooms — red, radiant, and regal. Sleeves shaped to shield, embroidery ignited into petals of fire.
She is the queen of hearts and the heart of resistance, wrapped in a garment that softens as it protects.
From her steps spills a cascade — not of fabric, but of inner light.
The body, here, is not covered to disappear but to reveal what blazes within.
@aemonaoff — The Plural Bride
And at the end — the beginning: a bride who refuses the script.
Her couture wedding gown is open-backed, deconstructed, set free from symmetry.
She does not wear white to submit, but to declare: I am many. I am becoming. I am.
In her, all paths converge — tradition, transformation, truth.
The altar is not her destination. Her destination is herself.
"Tracing the lines of free women"
With HOPE, Sarkis Sefayan envisions a collection as a manifesto. A reversed trajectory, deliberately choreographed against the natural direction of the runway, to invite reflection — to question what we see and how we see it.
On that day, the garments were shown in reverse order, starting not with liberation, but with constraint. The symbolic reading begins, in truth, with a corseted bride — a silhouette bound by tradition, yet already seeking to open, to bloom.
As each look follows, restriction gradually unravels. The corset slips down, becomes an accessory — then vanishes. Passionate reds merge with deep blacks, evoking inner struggle and the quiet strength of mystery. And then, the twist. A gown sculpted from a single stretch of silk satin — fluid, sovereign. The body is no longer confined, but traced, revealed. The garment no longer molds the form — it follows it, uplifts it, celebrates it. It becomes a declaration.
The show culminates in this final figure: a free silhouette, a column in motion, embodying an independent, conscious, sensual woman. But in truth, this is where the story begins.
This inversion is no mere aesthetic device — it provokes. It challenges how we read clothing, how we understand identity, how we accept that freedom is not granted, but built — often in defiance of imposed norms.
That day, two drag queen friends graced the runway, boldly affirming the beauty of plural identities. Through them, HOPE also honors fluid, shifting, uncontainable expressions of gender. At its core, this collection speaks of bodies — all bodies. Their right to move, to assert, to exist without restriction.
Between chiaroscuro and Haute Couture ambition, HOPE is an ode to transformation, to liberated femininity, to reclaimed independence. A collection in motion — like a flag raised, a steady line redrawn, a promise kept.
