La Cabine
LMMP
Moira Cristescu
Moïra Cristescu works for a Parisian Grand Couturier but has also been designing under her own name for several years, creating costumes for the stage and for the cinema. Trained at London's Central Saint Martins, this insatiable fashion designer takes charge of the entire creation process, from inspiration research and first sketches to the final piece. Lead by her natural curiosity and instinct, she develops questionings consistently relating to the body, to generate an intriguing and unique silhouette, whose vocation is always to sublime the woman.
The performance outfits:
This layering of costumes is reminiscent of Russian dolls: a garment opening up and revealing the one underneath, penetrating through successive steps the performer's personality in depth. First her armour, then her origins, her "on stage" character to finally reach her natural self.
Looking through photographs which inspire her, discovering her musical muses, investigating the imagery of her childhood helped define her world in an attempt to extract her very essence.
The dark stiff satin imprisons her, the raw edge panels overlap and get suddenly stitched down, limiting her movements. Freed from this shell, the blouson still detains her with its fur and embroidered roses, keeping her locked up in a cliché Russian tradition.
Underneath, the silver tulle dress exhibits her, moulds her body then gets voluntarily
away from it, showing only her deceptive side.
At last her real self will be revealed in underwear, primitive and genuine.
