à l’imparfait draws on the designer’s experience of scoliosis and wearing a back brace for 23 hours a day. The collection explores the relationship between a body and the structures imposed upon it, taking the brace’s lasting marks as a starting point for garments that follow the body’s own contours.

Through draping, deconstruction, and reconstruction, misalignment becomes a source of form. Fabric is gathered, twisted, and reassembled into silhouettes that find beauty in irregularity. Shibori techniques and spray paint recreate the appearance of stretch marks: fabric is compressed, sprayed, then stretched open to reveal traces of the process. Stretched jersey develops similar distortions, while stripes make the garments’ warping and twisting visible.

Lightweight fabrics fall around the body, allowing its shape to guide the clothing. The palette carries the emotional weight of the experience: red expresses strength, pain, and revenge; navy recalls the school uniform worn over the brace and becomes a response to enforced conformity. White signals peace and a new period of freedom. Together, these elements give form to a personal reclamation of the body, with its marks and asymmetries shaping the design.