Franck Sorbier 2025 Summer Haute Couture

2025 Summer Franck Sorbier Haute Couture
The powerful show that unveiled this anniversary collection in many ways, titled "Barbaricum e Imperium," had a powerful message for peace, also beautifully symbolized with a coat worn by Sorbier that had a gigantic peace sign on its back, as we could admire twice as he stood for ovations and demanded a bow two times after this morning show that lasted until lunchtime, although it was somewhat delayed. The vibe stayed with us throughout the day.

The show included a play where models were actors and artists, singers at the same time. Exploring the notion that the Romans considered any people who did not speak their language and were not part of the Empire «barbarians,» meaning foreigners, Sorbier attempts to give these cultures a face and highlight the identities of these tribes, such as Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks, Burgundians, Vandals, Lombards, and Celts, who essentially dwelled in modern-day France, the UK, Germany...
Sorbier reflects in this collection over the quarter of a century when he entered Couture in July 1999, stating that "a garment made entirely by machine is an act of barbarism."

At the heart of this collection is the savoir-faire and handmade techniques through which it is possible for a couturier to invent her or his signature vocabulary, which this collection sublimely highlights. Sorbier unveils how he had slipped into each creation a small diamond offered, at the time, by De Beers.

"I learned finesse by associating with my creations, purely
haute couture pieces like bias-cut sheaths, molded on the mannequin by our
friend Kanaé Taniwaki.
Isabelle, present from the beginning, in addition to her expertise
in color, pattern, and materials, has taken up lace, macramé, and lacy ... and
many other things ... This set of techniques and know-how honored me.
with the title of Master of Art in 2010."

Haute couture is a form of artistry that can entice drama, this season; haute couture shows its fangs and reveals the animal that lives in us, the show notes state. Show opens with black dresses to go over in delicate pastels in the end and soft fabrics. The materials mix organic with metal, bark with rock, black with black, and armor with muslin. Everything is ruffled, torn, crumpled, jacquards recut or reembroidered. But, beneath this violence done to materials, there is only one motivation: creation.

In January 2005, Sorbier became a Grand Couturier, a permanent member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture Parisienne, today called the Fédération Française de la Couture et de la Mode.

Four years ago, Israeli and Palestinian women created an informal
movement: Women Wage Peace.
In 2022, there were tens of thousands of them from all political backgrounds
and origins.
They are the warriors of peace.
A documentary film was launched two years ago to make them known to
the general public.
This collection gives me the opportunity to pay tribute to them, to
echo them and to tell them that I am with them wholeheartedly.
Because in the end, it is always Peace that will win."
Frank Sorbier