Chased by impossible rhythms, an appointment after the other, always on a run, out of breath and with the fear of not being able to see everything or enough, turning into Rue de Thorigny coming from Rue Delleyeme, we are assailed by a powerful suggestion, completely the opposite of the anxiety through delays that grips us since we landed in Paris.
Kindly hang dresses behind the glass of a big window, at whose feet are laid orange colour spots… tangerines! In unison, without saying a word, the curiosity stops simultaneously our run, and allows us to get inside the welcoming Sark Studio showroom.
The staff, away for business in Paris but part of an Australian born company, presents themselves with the same surprise and with an hospitality dazed by our chaotic entrance: Theresa, the designer, and her collaborators Ian and Spencer.
Shortly we discover how these so attractive colours are expression of a very ancient land, of its landscapes and its rocks, and how much these elements could determine, getting inside people’s culture, an existential slow feeling, in its ethical but also practical meanings.
Comfort, recycling of the fabric leftovers to regenerate them in harmonious patchwork on canvas for wide dresses and flared skirts, artisanal and hand-crafted for ever-present sarouel and less predictable dungarees. The so-called ‘fossil continent’ is evoked in the accessories ochre details, poetic macramé integrating our choices, definitely cautious in welcoming more ethnic and austral chromatic atmospheres…
With a shooting suffering, alas, of the performance speed and still a poor ability in handling it, we willingly share our meet with Sark Studio last 4th of October…
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