Victor Clavelly made his official runway debut during Paris Fashion Week with “Les Fragments”, a collection that marks a significant turning point for the French designer and digital artist. Presented as part of the Sphere showroom initiative at the Palais de Tokyo, the collection reflects Clavelly’s hybrid practice, merging digital fabrication with tactile form, fantasy with function.
Clavelly is not a traditional designer, nor does he aspire to be one. His garments begin as digital sculptures, modeled, iterated, and refined in 3D environments before being materialized through labor-intensive processes that blur the line between garment, object, and character. In “Les Fragments”, this process culminates in pieces that resemble wearable prostheses or armor, extensions of the body that suggest transformation rather than adornment. Each silhouette operates within a tension: between protection and vulnerability, presence and absence, digital and corporeal.
What sets “Les Fragments” apart is its commitment to world-building. The collection doesn’t follow a seasonal logic. It proposes a narrative. Influenced by medieval fantasy, video games like Dark Souls and Bloodborne, and a visual language steeped in speculative fiction, Clavelly constructs his own mythology, one in which the garment is a relic of an alternate reality. This storytelling is not decorative. It is structural. The garments speak in fragments, as the title suggests, but they belong to a coherent, self-contained universe.
Clavelly’s appearance at Paris Fashion Week marks not only his first runway presentation but a broader shift within fashion towards the integration of synthetic design languages. His work represents a convergence of disciplines: textile craft, costume design, sculpture, and CGI. And while “Les Fragments” may not resolve the longstanding divide between digital experimentation and wearable form, it articulates a future where that divide becomes increasingly irrelevant.
For all its conceptual density, “Les Fragments” is a deeply personal collection. It is driven not by trend, but by obsession. It is this singular vision that makes Victor Clavelly’s entry into the official Paris circuit feel not only deserved, but necessary. He is not simply adding another voice to the conversation. He is reframing the medium.
Photos: Natali Irzhavska @glazamirz
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