The season unfolds, a soft refrain – each momentum is held in a slow embrace. Delicate, deliberate, dissolving into the air before vanishing entirely, we seek transformation. Ruohan’s AW 25/26 collection resonates as a first breath on a frostbitten morning, an anthem for metamorphosis.
Solemn sighs at the Cloître des Billettes, a medieval cloister carved in light and shade. The monastery’s austere openness creates space for reflection and solitude. Silhouettes echo the rhythm of falling leaves, settling snow, and the soft thaw before spring’s return. As an origami, the fabric bends, folds, and creases into sculptural figures. The exploration of structure and fluidity nurtures a form of visual poetry in three dimensions. Each pleat, indentation, and line tells a story of compression and release.
As an unsung hero, texture is on display as a tactile language, adding depth, dimension, and intrigue. Coarse wools are now footsteps in untouched frost, grounding the collection in movement and memory. Cashmere jacquard reflects on the intricate geometry of fresh snow, crisp yet delicate. Each garment mirrors the season’s contrasts—softness and structure, warmth and austerity, presence and absence. A mad crush for the light gray layering ensemble. We are daydreaming.
The palette, minimalist yet profound light and shadow, much like an origami figure shifting in the hands of its maker. Muted greys, softened ivories, and washed charcoals blend like fog rolling over a winter landscape, their edges blurred, their presence felt rather than seen. Deep midnight blues and earthy taupes ground the collection, evoking the quiet weight of the season’s stillness.
Ruohan composes a narrative of transformation – each garment is a fold away from reinvention, a shape in flux, a testament echoing nature’s transient rhythm. Through cycles of tension and harmony, Ruohan finds structure within fragmentation, revealing beauty in the ever-changing.
