The building lobby is a space we pass through without really looking at it. A place of transit, waiting, and silence, it marks the boundary between the intimate and the collective. Neither outside nor inside, it is the discreet setting of ordinary gestures: waiting for the elevator, searching for one’s keys, crossing paths with a neighbor without knowing them. This shoot takes the lobby as its narrative starting point. A banal space, sometimes worn, sometimes solemn, into which fashion settles as an almost incongruous presence.
- Fur neck:
- Dolcesenza
- Dress:
- Timsto
- Top:
- stylists' own
- Bracelets:
- Martin Margiela from @kostum.archives
- Shoes:
- Ceecee
- Blouse:
- Dolcesenza
- Shoulder pads:
- @kostum.archives
- Skirt:
- Jean Paul Gaultier from Dolcesenza
- Earrings:
- Balenciaga from @kostum.archives
- Tights & Gloves:
- stylists’ own
- Shoes:
- Barbara Bui from Dolcesenza
The silhouettes converse with the architecture: marble, tile, concrete, tarnished mirrors. Through this contrast between assertive clothing and everyday settings, the series questions notions of status, appearance, and representation. Fashion is no longer a spectacular escape, but a way of existing within the ordinary. The series evokes a familiar figure: the bourgeois woman, approached as an aesthetic : wigs, elegant silhouettes, visible signs of wealth. Yet this image cracks.
- Pullover:
- Sonia Rykiel from @kostum.archives
- Skirt:
- Timsto
- Earrings:
- Balenciaga from @kostum.archives
- Tights:
- stylists’ own
- Shoes:
- Louboutin from @shushuaddict
The lobby becomes a quiet yet friction-filled space. Everything is polished, clean, and silent, to the point of discomfort. Less smooth details, gestures almost dissonant, disrupt the legibility of the character. In the neutral setting of the lobby, elegance becomes performance, and refinement shifts off-kilter. The cliché transforms into tension. The characters seem caught in an in-between: before going home, after having gone out. They are not posing; they are waiting. The lobby thus becomes a silent theater, where invisible narratives unfold, both intimate and urban.
- Poncho:
- Dolcesenza
- Dress:
- Jules Lemetais
- Hat:
- Dolcesenza @dolcesenza
- Gloves & Stockings & Shoes:
- stylists’ own
This work offers a new perspective on these shared spaces, often overlooked, as sites of projection. Where one usually passes without stopping, fashion takes root, observes, and reveals.