Robert Wun

Anatomy of chaos, metamorphosis of a thousand and one small dramas, imagined or experienced by celebrities at a Met Ball… Accumulating glimpses and improbable memories, the Couture moodboard echoes an atmosphere under extreme tension. One imagines the screams; hair dyes gone wrong; dreams turning to nightmares, the laboratory of glamour on the brink of apocalypse. Between reality and fiction, the talented Robert Wun celebrates, for his fourth Paris show, the art of seduction pushed to extremes, the unlimited appetite for metamorphosis – that which conditions all appearances, all extravagances.

Hemoglobin red was already celebrated in the Spring-Summer 2024 collection, and this virtuoso blessed with humour who has seduced Beyoncé, Céline Dion, and Björk – winner of the ANDAM Special Prize in 2022 – pushes the envelope even further. In a fantastical vein tinged with sincere references to Thierry Mugler’s Cruellas and John Galliano’s divines, the accident takes centre stage, serving as pretext for workshop craftsmanship honed to the millimetre. At the Théâtre du Châtelet, he chooses to orchestrate his tracking shot of a New York night imagined in London.

A graduate of the London College of Fashion, he cultivates his passion by subverting everyday objects – stilettos, shoulders, jackets – transforming them into absolutes of an extreme gore chic wardrobe. Or how, to become the person one has dreamed of becoming, madness imposes itself in all its extravagances, sublimated by Massaro, Lesage, Lemarié – a stain on a dressing gown (is it blood, ketchup, dye?) becomes a capillary fur of feathers, a violet bridal veil a bespoke performance. “Imagine becoming your own muse for an evening, embracing the contradictions of your insecurity,” Wun sums up with characteristic sangfroid.

L.B