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On the street of his training, Louis-Gabriel Nouchi in Gobelins Paris, a renowned French school for visual arts, and in Brussels La Cambre mode (s) was accepted.
The path he chose has been extensively covered in the seven years since he started the LGN label, but for spring the designer gave a look at the street that was not taken.
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Instead of a show, he revealed the Spring LGN collection in Silencio about a two and a half-minute animated film, which was inspired by the Blade Runner Universe by Philip K. Dicks Sci-Fi novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”. It was developed from his drawings with the French studio Wizz.
Nouchi dealt in replicants, the Android antagonists in history, who embodied how he felt about the sharp increase in the ai-generated pictures.
“It is a robot that looks like a person and starts thinking like a person. There is an insecurity,” said the designer in a preview. “My first reflex is now on social media to be surprised [whether images] are wrong or real. “
To translate this into clothing, the designer played with trompe-l’oeil and visited his strongly guilty, tailor-made silhouettes by layers. A floor -length coat became, for example, a box -shaped blouson, pants and a liquid, recording skirt.
The ambiguity of the gender -specific ambiguities prevailed as he was with female -adapted styles, but not from female models to repeat his ideal of inclusiveness for all bodies and genders.
His experiences with the film also informed textures for the season, whereby Latex nodded the artificial artificiality of the high gloss or a sheer upper half on a double jacket about the lighting of a sketch.
Listing arrows on the chest or along the legs and in the inside of jeans, which alluded to pencil lines that define a chiseled muscles – without restricting the real body.
In photos it packed a certain visual blow. But what made nouchi’s work remarkable was the fit and the feeling, an experience that cannot be made on virtual means.
Start gallery: LGN Louis Gabriel Nouchi Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear collection
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