I have never been someone you would call a ballet lover. I always admired it from a distance: the discipline, the movement, the music, the emotion. But I never felt it had anything to do with me personally.
That changed during the final months of my fashion design studies, which were probably one of the most intense and exhausting periods of my life. It was then that I found my way much deeper into the world of ballet, and unexpectedly, something of it stayed with me.
What inspired me most were not the performances themselves, but the people behind them. Conversations with dancers and creatives who have devoted years of their lives to ballet, going to performances in London and Paris, and gradually getting closer to this world completely changed my perspective. It felt far more genuine and inspiring than the endless stream of online references I had grown used to.
This collection became my way of exploring that feeling through design. I wanted to return to something classic, to take tailoring more seriously, to challenge myself technically and to create something with deeper emotion and more lasting value.
I don’t see this project as a single, finished collection, but as an evolving series of chapters. It is something that can keep growing over time through new ideas, people and collaborations.
For the first time in a long while, I feel a real connection to what I create, and I would love to keep building this world with others who are inspired by it too.
