Coppelia Pique
Graduated from l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris, Axelle Migé, creator of Coppélia Pique, has done a remarkable arrival having the rst place of the prestigious admission exam. Getting involved mainly in the contemporary art world through performances (Centre Georges Pompidou, MAS), expositions (Galerie Debruille-Zlotogora, Salon des mirrors) in France but also in other countries (Italie, Allemagne, Japon), Axelle builds up her personal universe, advocating the similarities between fashion, sculpture and ne arts. This style allowed her to win the C&A price in france and have a place in big high fashion houses. On may 2011, at the « Carré Rive Gauche », she presented the rst capsule collection of the brand Coppélia Pique supported by the press and fashion professionals. With this strong welcome, the brand will create four other Couture collections (fall-winter 2012-2013/ 2013/14, spring- summer 2014-15, and fall-winter 2016-17) presented at the parisian couture fashion week, and presenting proudly her rst ready to wear collection this last season spring-summer 2016/17
The Coppélia Pique Ready-to-wear Autumn-Winter 2016/2017 collection celebrates the universal myth of unrequited love in a modern Renaissance.
The woman lover is standing in a pictorial composition among young patrician ladies, warrior princesses and dragons.
As in the paintings of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, or the representations of Saint Michael and the Dragon, the sword is the catalyst of a transformation, changing the woman into a dragon, and then into a divinity.
The cycle starts with the birth of the lover. The wound reflects the pain of her teenage and, as she affirms herself as a woman, she becomes a dragon, a deified figure.
The idea of stabing is used as a metaphor which is also to be found in the sets of cuts and the superimpositions of fabrics. Precious fabrics are arranged with sportswear technical fabrics.
The lines are inspired by the uniforms and ceremonial outfits of the Officers. Asymmetries of forms are combined with a strong contrast between bright colors (vermilion, indigo, golden green) and more lassical colors, (midnight blue, grey and black). This colorful palette is highlighted by a tinge of gold.
This collection epitomizes Baudelaire’s poem « The Death of Lovers » and reveals the existing contradiction in the modern woman torn, in a world of passion, light games and mirror effects, between androgyny and femininity.
