Imane Ayissi Fall/Winter 2025 – 2026 / FW25 at Paris Couture Week entitled IKORROK

My Couture is made to really dress women, but a collection is also a way of telling stories, of expressing my vision on one subject or another. This season, I wanted to talk about nature, and the way contemporary humanity mistreats it. That’s why this collection is called “Ikorrok”, which in the Ewondo language of Cameroon means a garden left fallow, a garden that we stop exploiting to return it to nature and regenerate. This sums up the new relationship we should all be entering into with nature today.

But Imane Ayissi FW25 / Fall/Winter 2025 – 2026 Couture collection is also a stylistic exercise in the different ways fashion can evoke nature – flora, fauna. Visually, with prints, brocades, embroidery, appliqués and ornamentation, such as the beading of small animals, a technique inspired by traditional Yoruba culture. But also in a more abstract way, by creating garments that are “gentle” on nature, entirely bio-degradable for example, like these garments in French sheep’s wool felt embroidered with pieces of porcelain, semi-precious stone and urushi lacquer developed in collaboration with visual artist Aline Putot-Toupry.

Words by IMANE AYISSI

All images Imane Ayissi FW25 / Fall/Winter 2025 – 2026 Couture collection by the brand. PR Agency Station Service Paris. Make Up & Hair Marcello Costa.