Marine Serre showcased her Spring/Summer '21 collection at Galleries Lafayette last september. Due to the pandemic there was no show but a movie "Amor Fati" (named after the collection) and this presentation upon the Champs Élysées.
The collection contained skin face-shielding bodysuits, utility jackets, cargo pants all printed with the crescent moon (logo)and made out of biodegradable nylon. The designers upcycled carpets which led to the brown/red dress. There are also skirts, shorts and anoraks made out of this fabric which gives the graphic shapes a baroque decorativeness. Influenced by the increasing bike usage in Paris, Serre designed accessories which go on a bike like a stainless waterbottle, a compas worn as choker, bottle openers, whistles and a cape-like visor slash splash guard.
We were very impressed by the craftmanship of the white dress; beautiful tailored with multiple cut-outs and a corset top overflowing in a bold back. Also the logo booties are fav since the first time we saw them, these are a new colloboration with Jimmy Choo. Last but not least the big face shield, absolutely on point between the lockdowns visualizing the almost apocalyps time last september.
You may like it or not, think it's wearable or not fact is; Marine Serre is a young designer who renews every time, using all kind of up-cycle and recycle techniques and gets her clothes worn by the "safe" influencers, as well as the more excentric ones plus the big stars (remember Beyoncé's movie and album "Black is King" where Marine Serre's wellknown catsuit was worn by Beyoncé and all her dancers.) We think she is one of the most interessting and renewing designers of the moment and are curious to see what her post-pandemic collection will be like.
Press release 'Amor Fati'
The difficulty of presenting a conventional collection due to Covid has prompted the French designer Marine Serre to create an audiovisual project of artistic and philosophical essence. The film starring Sevdaliza and Julieta Merie has been directed by filmmakers Sacha Barbin and Ryan Doubiago. “Amor Fati” tells the astral journey of two humanoids guided by the truth of each other. A convergence of scenarios and characters that unveil the designer’s new collection for the SS21 season.
“Amor Fati” in its most philosophical context takes as its central axis the destiny and the impossibility of the individual to change it. The understanding of this reality will lead him to his own evolution as a superman. Marine Serre presents us with the future of the industry, its closest destiny, a fashion that no longer speaks of genres but of silhouettes and androgynous profiles. To think differently is to oppose the current. The imaginary created by the French woman has a cyclical timeline from which there is no escape.“We cross three worlds in the film that exist simultaneously – one aquatic, one mountainous and a third totally aseptic – each with a different atmosphere. In some moments they are seductive, in others they are dangerous. But people are always the same, it’s only the clothes they wear that change the role they play. Clothes are tools for making people feel protected – this is understood very well now.”
(Edit and pictures by Brenda)
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