THYRSE | “MATERIA” BETWEEN COUTURE AND BOTANY

In her new collection Materia, Domitille Basso crosses her floral design practice with her stylist background. After eight years at Saint Laurent as a textile and embellishment designer, her heightened sensitivity to materials, colours, and textures now finds expression in the botanical world through floral compositions, arrangements and staging. Materia thus marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of her practice, where her two worlds and areas of expertise merge. She embroiders real flowers onto found fabric samples before creating garments that overflow with life. Flowers are no longer a printed image or drawn and manufactured motifs, as is often the case in fashion, but rather the material and presence themselves. The image comes alive. Domitille Basso’s approach is marked by a vitalist approach, radical experimentation, and ecological awareness. She follows upcycling principles, using second-hand garments and fabric remnants as her base before revitalizing them with flowers, leaves, and seashells. She observes the world around us, and finds forms, materials, and colours in their raw state. Domitille Basso concludes her series with a final cycle: a series of photographs conceived as paintings, uniting the various outfits in more contrasting and startling associations. Again, colours and textures blend, returning to their organic state. In a continuous flow, Domitille Basso explores the infinite possibilities of combination: one form generates another, which in turn suggests a new one—in a living chain of metamorphoses. Her work, driven by a sensitivity that is almost Pythagorean, allows a continuous movement in which each transformation already contains the next, and matter itself sparks the imagination. Thank you @mothernatureslave for her precious hands & @oonadoyle for her words