Hi-Fashion: SPHERE Paris Fashion Week Showroom Menswear SS 2024
Hi-Fashion
Since January 2020, the FHCM has operated Sphere Paris Fashion Week® Showroom, with the support of LE DEFI and L’Oréal Paris. Sphere is part of its mission to support emerging designers. It brings together a group of brands invited to the official calendar or fashion prize winner, selected for their creativity and development potential.
Menswear Spring/Summer 2024 showroom session will take place at the Palais de Tokyo from Wednesday 21st to Sunday 25th, June 2023. A digital version will also be available by invitation with the help of Le New Black and Grand Shooting from June 21st, 2023.
SPHERE PARIS FASHION WEEK® SHOWROOM
This season, the Sphere Paris Fashion Week® Showroom will feature:
ARTURO OBEGERO*
CHRISTOPH RUMPF
C.R.E.O.L.E*
JEANNE FRIOT*
LAGOS SPACE PROGRAMME*
PONDER.ER
VALETTE STUDIO*
(*Indicates brands on the Paris Fashion Week® Official Calendar)
ARTURO OBEGERO
Arturo Obegero studied pattern making for a few years before joining Central Saint Martins, from which he graduated in 2018. After a year’s experience in the workshops of the House of Lanvin, he chose to launch his own brand. His ready-to-wear is inspired by dance, surrealist, and neo-noir movements. His designs make up a romantic, sensual, and austere wardrobe for both men and women.
CHRISTOPH RUMPF
Christoph Rumpf won the Grand Prix du jury au Festival de mode, de photographie et d’accessoires de mode in 2019. He finished his studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in 2020 and founded his eponymous brand in 2021. Collecting antique fabrics, he creates sophisticated collections for men and women with an artistic point of view and an appreciation for traditional tailoring skills. Admiring John Galliano, he defines his brand as sensual and structured.
C.R.E.O.L.E
Designer, photo stylist, artistic director, and DJ, Vincent Frederic-Colombo has long navigated between event, music, fashion, and the inclusive events of the LA CREOLE collective, of which he is a co-founder. In 2022, he begins the marketing of the brand C.R.E.O.L.E, defining it as a powerful manifesto centered on the legacy of the Creole diaspora and its future. Through his brand, he challenges the status of the male wardrobe by transitioning towards unisex codes, with a particular interest in workwear-inspired silhouettes. In 2023, the brand joined the Official Calendar of the Paris Fashion Week® presentations.
JEANNE FRIOT
Jeanne Friot is a Paris-based, gender-neutral brand founded in 2020. The brand offers pieces produced in limited series from recycled or upcycled materials. A graduate of the Duperré school and then the French Fashion Institute in 2018, Jeanne Friot has worked in several houses including Balenciaga. Passionate about creating images, she has also collaborated as a stylist with editorials such as Vogue Italia and Les Inrocks. The young designer offers an ethical and inclusive fashion made in France since January 2022.
LAGOS SPACE PROGRAMME
Lagos Space Programme, which has been created by Adeju Thompson in 2018, is a design concept based in Lagos, centered around multidisciplinary artistic collaborations. Adeju and his team envision the future of Africa by offering innovative interpretations of beauty through high-end, non-gendered pieces. Crafted in justly compensated local workshops, the brand advocates for slow fashion, which can highlight the ancestral work of Benin metalworkers or organic indigo natural dyeing. In 2021, Lagos Space Programme became a semi-finalist for the LVMH Prize, and pieces created by the brand were exhibited at the Royal Albert Museum, and the RISD Museum, among others. In May 2023, the brand won the International Woolmark Prize and joined the Official Calendar of the Paris Fashion Week® presentations.
PONDER.ER
After studying fashion at Central Saint Martins in London, Hong Kong-born duo Alex Po and Derek Cheng founded the brand PONDER.ER in 2019. The reinterpretation of modern masculinity is central to their vision.They particularly work with pleats, knitwear, and smocks and present pieces with graphic and strong visuals. In June 2022, they were awarded the Yu Prize.
VALETTE STUDIO
Pierre-François Valette launches his label Valette in Paris in 2020 after training at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, the Isabel Marant studio, and the Saint Laurent fashion house. The young designer, focused on craftsmanship, has a particular appetite for storytelling, the arts, and the stage, the foundations of the brand’s identity. His pieces, which appeal to women as much as men, are designed to last. Pierre-François Valette is committed to the transmission of knowledge and values both traditional techniques and the craftsmen with whom he collaborates. VALETTE STUDIO makes sure to tell stories and its ready-to-wear echoes a whole series of accessories. VALETTE STUDIO has been on the Official Calendar since June 2021.
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