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Études Studio’s Creative Ambitions

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The sophomore effort from Aurélien Arbet and Jérémie Égry as Études Studio’s sole designers reinforced the Paris brand’s creative ambitions. The show location at the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM), a French studio specialising in the contemporary study of music, sound and creative practice was fitting for a collection whose references spanned Intelligent Dance Music in the early 1990s and Dream House, the sound and light installation by artists La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela.

The practical elements of workwear are pervasive, enriched with subtle yet inventive flourishes to provide a frisson of excitement. Familiar finishes like front and back zippers and removable hoods are juxtaposed with laced inserts on jackets, corduroy, ribbed second-skin pieces or jersey with visible inverted seams while a puffer jacket features a double-button placket. Workwear is contrasted with Parisian sophistication in tailored wide-leg trousers and chinos and a dashing chocolate brown leather coat. Elsewhere, images from Berlin-based Canadian artist Jeremy Shaw’s transcendent dreamscapes are screen-printed on garments. In a mostly muted colour palette of black, grey and brown, with flashes of purple and violet, Arbet and Égry created a functional wardrobe that does all the talking without making a sound.

“Elegance is a fine balance of taste, shape, details and attitude,” Arbet and Égry shared, in an email.

What would you like us to know about the collection?

This collection, named Résonances is built around the figure of the sound maker: musicians and artists who use sound as material. The collection explores how they inhabit clothing across different moments of life: in the studio, in everyday practice, or even on stage. 

 

How is Études Studio developing from previous seasons? 

We are pursuing our exploration of the artist’s wardrobe, at the intersection of function and expression. This season marks an important development with the introduction of our first accessories line, notably bags in canvas and leather. This new category lays the foundation for a long-term line that will accompany the evolution of the Études silhouette.

 

How do you define the modern man?

Curious, creative, engaged. 

 

How does Études Studio hope to spark desire when there is so much else going on in the world today? 

Through sensitivity and sincerity. At Études Studio, our role is to restore value to creatives and to enrich everyday life through creativity, collective exchange and shared experiences. We believe in imagination as a way to open new perspectives, and in the possibility of alternative ways of seeing and inhabiting the world. In the collection, a T-shirt created in collaboration with artist Jeremy Shaw reads “I need to believe.” It is this belief,  in sensitivity, in creativity, in exchange,  that allows us to imagine that alternatives are always possible.

 

This interview has been lightly edited. 

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