“Alaïa is a house of simplicity and purity - intimacy, and a radical beauty.

This collection is reduced, sculptural. Precise. Yet there is also an extremity to it, in heightened colours, bold shapes. Uncompromising.

I’m fascinated by the idea of tension, which feels relevant for today. A tension between genders, between excess and restraint, covering and revealing, between our history and our future, cultural forces. There is a tension in the performance of the show, the figure of each model caught between a filmed and mirror image of herself.

And there is a literal tension, a torsion, in the clothes. They are drawn around the body, suspended from unexpected points to redefine a silhouette, streamlined and ergonomic. The sculpture is pulled against the skin - there is a sense, always, of the woman’s body within, moving, alive.”

Pieter Mulier