Sculptural Dress

Marga Weimans collaborated with the four craftsmen involved in the project to end up with one architectural and dramatic dress. Even though they didn’t speak the same tongue, they actually spoke the same language: artistic and creative. Through this garment, the designer and the craftsmen combined their sense of innovation and tailoring serving one strong point of view: showing how elements of nature and space can be incorporated into a design. These elements of nature and space are encountered through the different crafts.

First of all, Marga Weimans worked together with the corset-maker Laetitia Schlumberger to build the base of the dress, a corset which supports the other elements that are articulated around it. Starting with this garment, the two women inspired each other in order to give a strong backbone to the dress.

The work of Séverina Lartigue was added, who tailored flowery elements that give a strong sense of her possibilities as a craftsman: a mix of flowers, both literal and more abstract, rough and coarse elements that suggest flowers, make the link between reality and the interpretation of it. These elements definitely match the dreamlike and oneiric vision on the world that they both share.

Moreover, the point of view of Weimans, combined with the savoir-faire of Jean-Pierre Baquère, result into a series of unique leaves of glass. The expected fragility of this material actually reinforces the design giving incredible relief and depth to the piece.

Finally, the creations Nicole Roca made out of paper give perspective to the dress. Sticking to the theme of nature, its beauty as well as its brutality, Nicole crafted ornaments that resemble the bark of a tree.