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Germanier Summer 2025: an Ode to Light

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By Laurence Benaïm.

Night birds flash their sequined wings towards the rue des Acacias garage in Paris, and the ‘Désastreuses’ of Summer 2025 light up the concrete in a parade of 24 models, all under the sign of an illuminated galaxy. 

From Aries to the Sun, from Leo to Mercury, from Pisces to the Stars, the expertise of the Swiss prodigy is unleashed in a flood of zodiac-inspired light. A constellation of colours for an explosion of twisted embroidery; a shower of volcanic fringes; a polychrome parade that gives the body a supernatural presence – especially when a corset moulded to the bust disintegrates into a thousand fringes. Giant butterflies with reflections of gold and worms; silver cosmic mermaids with XXL pastilles embodied in majesty by the Grande Dame; the stars become apparitions that defy time zones as much as the path of the sun. 

Head-dressed in feathers, the models challenged the industrial age and its waste in a generous parade – here in a buoy dress, there in an accumulation of summer flip-flops forgotten on the beach. 

All the nights overlap: white nights and galactic nights, dream girls and liquid asteroids escaping from the abyss. From shocking pink in multi-layered solids to this psychedelic voodoo cape, the joy is unbridled. Kevin Germanier’s catwalk is a spectacle of fire, silhouetted before our very eyes.