Fashion house Xuly.Bët presented its Fall Winter 2023 Collection, that highlights the funky soul of the brand, on March 7th, during the recently finished Paris Fashion Week. The collection, made from upcycled materials, crosses fleece, sequin, jersey t-shirts and fur with the brand’s iconic red stitching pieces. For the season designer Lamine Badian Kouyaté collaborated with editor and stylist Tati Cotliar. Fashion photographer Ismaël Moumin captured the campaign featuring top model Marpessa Hennink. In charge of set design was Afra Zamara. Beauty is work of hair stylist Benjamin David, and makeup artist Anna Sadamori.
FALL WINTER 2023.24 WOMENSWEAR COLLECTIONS
“This new year brings on a lot for XULY.Bët, which continues to celebrate its 30th anniversary. A regain of love for Paris, a cohesive creative team and new collaborations still confidential to come. For a few weeks now, the ‘FUNKIN’ FASHION FACTORY’ has installed its atelier in the heart of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, in which designer Lamine Badian Kouyaté continues to spend his day stitching his creations and recycling pieces found in the surrounding thrift shops. Its address? 144, rue Saint-Denis. In the middle of the Sentier, XULY.Bët continues to work with the neighborhood’s textile retailers, dear to Lamine Kouyaté’s heart, as he never stopped getting his supplies with them, despite many of them closing over the past twenty years.
To produce this collection, only one fabric was bought this season. By moving ateliers, we have rethought our existing stock and decided to work with it some more, preoccupied by sustainability but also to give ourselves a creative continuity and in order to be even more responsible still. Last autumn, the KESHIKI gallery in Osaka, whose owner Yuko, an early admirer of XULY.Bët, approached our teams. Yuko works with the most traditional and emblematic garment of the Japanese wardrobe, the kimono, which she wishes to reintegrate into the wardrobe of the contemporary Japanese. Well chosen and reworked by her care, some of her pieces are over 50 years old. Her dynamic, so close and inspired from Lamine’s one, led the two designers to collaborate on kimonos then stamped with the logo ‘100% RECYCLED’.” from Xuly.Bët
Fashion photography duo Chaumont & Zaerpour captured the lookbook featuring models and friends of the brand such as Flavia Coehlo, Rokhaya Diallo, Farida Rahouadj and Assa Traoré among others.
