Concept

As a starting point for the concept of my capsule collection, I took the Art Nouveau, an artistic mouvement really popular and well represented in my city, Brussels. We have good exemples of architecture, furniture and artcrafts made by Paul Hankar, Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, Henry Van de Velde and many others including one of the most famous leaders of the mouvement Victor Horta. Horta, in 1903, made the first building considered as Art Nouveau : the Tassel Hotel.

Starting with the picture of the hall, I really liked the curves of the ironwork and the paintings on the wall. The colours are amazing, sublimed by the skylight from the roof. The natural light is coming through the stained glass window and gives this wonderful atmosphere. Then, I looked at the work of stained glass window. What I really liked was the contrast between the dark iron frame and the brighter parts of the glass. Therefore, I searched for more exemples of lights that could give me this contrast. From a picture of a building in Dubai, I though about the X-Ray pictures. To still reference to my initial idea, I chose the X-Ray pictures of natural elements which is the main inspiration of the Art Nouveau. I have come with pictures of flowers, leaves, mushrooms... taken in X-Ray which show the contrast of colours I was looking for - the transparency of the X-Ray and the curves of the Art Nouveau.