Miled Chahla
Garde-Robe Moisie - 2025
This collection is rooted in a personal archive: a series of letters written by the designer’s mother to his father in 1999, now delicate with age. The deterioration, creased paper, fading ink, and the slow erosion of time became the starting point for the collection’s material language. The garments draw from Catholic art and its visual codes: drapery, ritual, repetition, and the interplay of light and shadow. These references are not replicated directly but are filtered through a process of abstraction and erosion. The collection reflects on how sacredness is built through gesture, texture, and the careful layering of symbols. Guarde-Robe Moisie constructs from what remains, not to preserve, but to reinterpret. It frames personal loss through the language of the sacred, where decay is not an end, but a form of transformation.
Photography: Patrick Mecherkany
Beauty Direction: Moe Maanieh
Models: Clementine Brown and Perla Eid
Assisted by Wadih Hadchity
Fabrics:
Ivory taffeta, black jersey, gold and black brocade, quilted gold lamé, off-white fur, off-white wool, navy taffeta.
Color Palette:
Ivory, off-white, navy, black, and gold.
Techniques:
Corsage construction, panel-based pleating, individual linings, ornamental button placement, patchwork, and hidden gold quilting.