Yahoo Lifestyle Maison Sara Chraïbi Looked to the Skies for Spring 2025 Couture
With her fourth outing on the couture calendar, Moroccan designer Sara Chraïbi wanted to be less literal with the crafts of her homeland that she has successfully championed on the Paris runway.
“Maybe I feel less of a need to tell the story of Morocco. It remains an inherent part of who I am, my history, my religion and my spirituality, and I still want to express that in the collection, but perhaps in a more lighthearted way,” she explained backstage ahead of the show, held on the ninth floor of the Institut du Monde Arabe, with a panoramic view of the city from its glass walls.
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The setting was significant. Chraïbi told a spiritual story of the skies, both real and imaginary, in a collection dominated by ivory, pale blue and silver. “I was reading a passage from the Koran about a sacred tree in the sky,” she said. “It’s a tree that souls who have done good deeds climb, it’s a story of ascension.”
Its foliage provided ample resources for demonstrating her craftsmanship, worked in embroideries on organza or as hundreds of leaves cut by hand, used as fringing on skirts or embroidered and appliquéd onto her creations over guipure openwork bodices. Jersey was frayed by hand to create shape-shifting rope skirts that overlaid several designs, some mixed with the leaves.
Prints evoked the night sky seen from the forest floor on a cape dress, or suggested a blustery vision in pale blue and lilac ombré on a cropped kimono pantsuit in satin with balloon sleeves. There were embellished and embroidered caftans and headscarves, rich with colored stones. It was some of the simpler designs that stole the show though, like a white organza shift embroidered front and back with a tree that mirrored the shape of the human spine.
Chraïbi is expanding her international footprint, meanwhile. She was recently part of an initiative to highlight Moroccan craft in Doha, Qatar, and will take part in London Fashion Week next month.
Launch Gallery: Maison Sara Chraïbi Spring 2025 Couture
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