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Carapace Gown
Moulded bridle leather over bias-cut gazar — twelve plates, wet-formed on the body, riveted by hand. The corset closes with a single spine of blackened steel. 340 hours.
VANTABLUME
Collection 001 — Exoskeleton
Collection 001 — Exoskeleton
The Looks
“We do not dress the body. We give it a second skeleton, and let it decide what to become.”Mireille Vantablume — Founder, 1987
Manifesto
Vantablume was founded on a refusal: that softness is the only language a garment may speak. In the atelier on Rue de Poitou, cloth is treated as a living material with a will of its own — boiled, pressed, moulded, persuaded into structures that hold the air around the body like held breath.
Collection 001, Exoskeleton, studies the insect wing and the beetle's shell — surfaces that are armour and ornament at once. Every plate is formed by hand over plaster casts of the house's fit models; every scale is sewn by a single petite main from first to last, so that each dress carries one person's patience inside it.
Nothing here is seasonal. Nothing is repeated. Each look exists as a single exemplar, numbered, archived, and released only to those who understand that couture is not bought — it is entrusted.
The house shows once a year, in silence, without music. What you hear on the runway is the garment itself: the dry click of leather plates, the hush of gazar. This is the sound of Vantablume.
Défilé 001