A note from Caroline Guiela Nguyen
My intuition from the outset was that I wanted to talk about secrets. At the same time, I discovered the work of Rieko Koga, an artist who hand sews sentences onto fabric. I was struck by one of her works, where she sewed on linen the lines: ‘According to an old Japanese belief that I still hold, stitches have magical powers. The clothes my mother made for me when I was a little girl always covered me with her great love. And the stitches on the back protected me from anxiety and fear.’ One thing led to another, and I arrived at something almost akin to the world of fairy tales – what if all the characters were connected to the story of how a dress was made? I went even further, thinking that the subject would be that everyone who comes into contact with this dress will, in a way, be touched by a curse. Today, I feel that everything has led me to sewing and later to haute couture, which is truly a world of secrets. From there, I could build my narrative – or rather my narratives, because I always work with a chorus, a plurality of stories that intertwine and resonate with each other.
Caroline Guiela Nguyen
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