Couture essentielle

Recorded at the CND 23 March 2017

“Each gesture, each undertaking, each result is the manifestation and the challenge of a fashion system that we want to examine elsewhere. Wishing to put together a fashion collection, we have created it in a dance studio. Wishing to present a fashion show, we have programmed it outside – outside traced circuits, outside fashion. Wishing to produce and disseminate this collection, we have organised a performance showroom where what is for sale is not perhaps the actual garment. Neither a brand nor a label, this collection is an “S.O.S.” to the fashion world. It has recourse to the “petites mains”, those skilled workers, men and women alike, who displayed their talents at famous fashion houses. It calls on our fashion memories, it invites an art of appearance within which gestures, words and dress are already costumes. The result is a collection of souvenir clothes, of objects, dress and body-segments where not only the official, but also the intimate and everyday history of fashion acts like a creative material.”
Olivier Saillard 

Source: programme of the CND – Updating March 2017