Alex Pommier
On Wednesday, it was a year away from Jeanne Friot’s opening ceremony in Paris 2024. The series, known as résistance, offers a swivel on the Pride Flag, as well as new changes to metalized leather armor, will The 30-year-old designer and her fledgling brand On the map.
Castings are derived entirely from trans and non-binary communities, causing just as much excitement, and even more. The backstage before the performance, the mood is electric. “Fuck it strong!” yelled trans Claude Emmanuelle to her model. In the show record, she extended the idea with the words “providing riots before it’s too late.”
“When I did my last show in January, I thought I had to do something,” the designer said. “I can’t just do another collection, not address what’s going on in the community, especially trans communities, because their lives will get complicated, and I find the violence that is happening, and I’m frustrated every day. It’s the way I say it, saying, ‘We love you; you will always be visible, we will see you, we will protect you.”
On the runway, the tartan becomes a cape, the broad shoulders are the commanding profile, and a bunch of belts in patented black, metallic blue and pink leather becomes a leotard, dress, dress and stompist – Manifestos, the last of which was developed in collaboration with both.
But Jeanne Friot has no intention of limiting her platform to Paris Fashion Week. She recently made some furniture for French retailer La Redoute and stage costumes for artists including Katy Perry and French singer and actress Barbara Pravi, as well as a new partnership with the Ballets of De Lorraine and Pharmonie de Paris. “It’s really a global vision,” she said. “I want to go out of fashion and show what we love to do.”
