AELIS Couture SS24 at Paris Couture Fashion Week

AELIS Couture SS24 / Spring Summer 2024g at Paris Couture Fashion Week present Lyrica.

For Inspiration of AELIS SS24, A swallow flying in the sky overlooking a Tuscan hill, which suddenly decides to fly into the internal space limited by the marble walls of Sofia’s house, guides and inspires AELIS to reflect on freedom in constant and delicate balance between strength and lightness. The grace and elegance of the swallow and the lyrical energy of her song accompany this season’s eco-ethical, art-couture creation

For the AELIS Couture Spring Summer 2024 collection AELIS continue the collaboration with the Opera de Paris and Christine Neumeister, director of the costume department who offered to Sofia Crociani the access to elements of historical archives perfectly preserved and belonging to productions of the past.

The trace of the artists, often singers, is present in every fiber of the elements chosen and guides Sofia in the creation of unique works that dialogue between the lived and the living.

AELIS, which has always structured the dress around the impalpable movement of the fabric that sculpts it, this time takes inspiration from historical underwear as a tool to protect the body and creates a collection where the extremely light meet or repose on the rigid structures.

Sofia pays homage to classical Ballet with long tulle skirts and to Opera through the up-cycling of petticoats and corsets.

Within each element appears the trace of their experience and AELIS expressly leaves visible the trace of the history of the dress which lives again in a new creation, witness to a past that offers itself to the future.

A 1963 crinoline served for Verdi’s Don Carlo becomes the support for a cotton macramé lace top that rests vertically on the skirt.

Details of AELIS Couture SS24, the width and structure of the petticoats offer AELIS a reflection on the protection of the female body and its fragility. A baroque crinoline accompanies the pink organic silk mousseline poncho which creates an evanescent movement carried by the rigid structure underneath.

A flounce of powder blue tulle folds generate a volume on the bottom of a dress degraded wheel silk, studded with rhinestones of the same color that recalls the passage of a cloud.

The choice to use the no gender corset worn under the tuxedo jacket covered with jewelry created by Les Interessants, arises from the male use of covering the body during battles and hunting which only in the Renaissance became part of women’s clothing as well for protection of the body.

In counterpoint a bra embroidered with mirrors combines with organic silk tulle “bois de rose” and creates a light silhouette like a butterfly wing.

A trace of red velvet structures the ballerina silhouette and offers a moment of reflection on the presence of this color.

Red discreetly appears as a graphic trace in Constance Haond’s make-up and refers to a warning message towards the violence of which the most fragile living being is often a victim, but also to the desire that the beauty of the creation that identifies it is capable to transform his condition.

For AELIS the choice of muses is always and still linked to engagement and model friends like Emma Zoe, a young law student, appears in the show as eco-ethical messengers to protect life on this planet.

Jacopo Godani, artist and friend of Sofia, signs a series of short videos made during the fashion show.

The music that accompanies the models is played live by the cellist and artist Juile Laderach, celebrate classical and contemporary composition while for the film of the fashion show her cello meets the sound creation of MR.sMiFF

Last December the art of the opera singing became UNESCO’s intangible cultural world heritage, AELIS couture show her collection in the temple of opera Bastille and pays homage to this wonderful art.

GREEN SHOW

The ecological commitment in the partnership between AELIS and the Opera de Paris this season is present not only in up-cycling but also manifest itself through the mutual desire to encourage and highlight ecological practice during the organizations of events.

This time the Opera de Paris invited AELIS to show at the Opera Bastille to share an event that coincides with the desire dedicated to raising ecological awareness of respect for the environment and on sustainable practices.

AELIS and the Paris Opera collaborated to implement an eco-sustainable art-to-wear couture fashion show.

AELIS Couture SS24 collection, presented in the panoramic foyer of the Opéra Bastille, highlight the creation, the place and its history.

Through this collaboration, the Paris Opera and the AELIS house wish to raise awareness in the fashion industry and the public on the importance of up-cycling in sustainable and ethical fashion as well as the necessity of environmental respect during the organization of an event such as a fashion show.

The show take place with not decor, under natural day light reflecting the desire of AELIS and Paris Opera to show that is possible to create beauty and art respecting the environment.

AELIS since her foundation follows her Manifesto and Paris Opera will soon present a charter to guide the realization of eco-sustainable events .

AELIS and the Opera de Paris are dedicated to create a sustainable future.