Summer 2025 ready-to-wear collections
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00:00How do you feel?
00:04Proud. I'm proud of Kevin.
00:07It's always great to see him having fun and following his instincts.
00:10So yeah, I'm very proud of my friend Kevin.
00:25The Kevin in question, Kevin Germainier,
00:28the young Swiss designer presenting his summer 2025 ready-to-wear collection.
00:33Germainier is the king of upcycling.
00:36He breathes new life into everything from rolls of wrapping ribbon to VHS tape,
00:40and was responsible for the costumes at the Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony.
00:52It changed my life as a professional experience and also just a human one.
00:56It was just so real.
00:58And it's funny because there's a part of it walking behind me right now.
01:01I took things from the Olympic ceremony and put them in this collection.
01:04Yeah, I took parts of Aminosh's piano performance.
01:07We had two or three bits of fabric that we were maybe going to put on the ground during the closing ceremony.
01:11And in the end, they weren't used, so we picked them up and made a dress out of them.
01:18He creates beauty. He comes up with new shapes.
01:20I think that's what gets me the most excited.
01:23He uses our bodies in general differently.
01:26He uses them differently. He takes us somewhere else.
01:29It's also about calling on the imagination.
01:32It's not just about beauty or style. It's poetry, narration.
01:35There you go. It's about creating something miraculous.
01:40Another groundbreaking designer called upon by director Thomas Joly for the Olympic Games
01:45was Victor Vainsanto, whose work appeared at the opening ceremony.
01:49Vainsanto too has an eternal fascination with the world of drag.
01:58Yes, I think that drag is in itself political.
02:01I think that still today, a man dressing as a woman is one of the boldest forms of revenge against or betrayal of the patriarchy.
02:10But honestly, the point is just to make people laugh and to de-dramatize certain things.
02:20Yes, drag is fundamentally political.
02:24It's about questioning gender norms, the norms that exist in society,
02:28but always in a spirit of joy and always in dialogue with the public.
02:32We try to educate a bit, to share the reality of our existences, because there are many of them.
02:38That's why drag is political.
02:41When you see shows like Drag Race, it really helps people to understand that it's normal,
02:45that there's nothing, that it's not an illness.
02:48And I also think a lot about parents.
02:50We've heard a lot from parents who watch the show with their children.
02:53It's taught parents a lot about the community, and also the fact that, yeah, for example,
02:57people can really make a career out of drag.
02:59Being gay isn't the same as being a drag queen.
03:01People often make that mistake, and I think that today,
03:05that's starting to become a bit clearer for people.
03:10Third up in today's roll call of young dynamic designers, Vincent Précyat.
03:15His looks are all about architectural shapes and strong shoulders,
03:19a form of protection for bodies that are all too often vulnerable.
03:26Well, today, I can't tell you all the warriors.
03:29Today, well, I won't talk you through all the wars there are in the world,
03:32the economic crisis, everything else that's going on.
03:35But life's very complicated for a lot of people, a lot of us.
03:38We're living through very challenging times,
03:40and we're thinking about how to interact, how to live.
03:43So there you go.
03:44This mise-en-scene has to do a bit with all of that.
03:47A ready-to-wear collection, it doesn't just come out of nowhere.
03:51I'm only interested in exercising my freedom.
03:55I'm only interested in existential questions,
03:57everything to do with gypsy and traveler cultures.
03:59I've always worked with people who work in the circus or that sort of milieu,
04:03and I've always loved how freely they speak, how freely they live,
04:06their ability to leave, to not work, just to feel and appreciate energy.
04:10And that's what I'm showing here.
04:15How would you describe this look?
04:17I'd say it's very well thought out because of the movement.
04:20In fact, as soon as you start walking,
04:22the skirt moves and the zips reflect the light.
04:24You have the shoulder pads that are one of Preciat's signature looks.
04:28The material is wonderful.
04:29There's a rawness there.
04:30The edges are cut roughly.
04:32It's very beautiful.
04:34For me, it's almost as if it's already vintage, already classic.
04:37It's already part of a wardrobe that we need.
04:42And last up, another advocate of upcycling,
04:45Swedish designer Ellen Hoddekova-Larsen.
04:48This year, she won an award for her work
04:51This year, she won the prestigious LVMH Prize,
04:54pocketing a cool 400,000 euros.
04:57She works in Stockholm.
04:59I think it's important to just value this way of working creatively
05:06and just being free in this way
05:08because it gives so much joy to the process of being
05:14and searching for surprises all the time.
05:18But also, I'm so thankful to be able to do this
05:22and that it's a good time in the world.
05:25The industry is moving forward.
05:28So much changes.
05:30This is just one way of changing the mass-producing behavior
05:37and what we are consuming.
05:39There will be many solutions,
05:41but this is one option, I would say.
05:48It seems that fashion's avant-garde is at its most creative
05:53when it looks to the outside world for inspiration.
06:00In the United States, first- and second-generation immigrants
06:04have historically voted for the Democratic Party.
06:07However, more and more are joining the ranks of Donald Trump's Republicans.
06:12The Republican Party, they don't make race an object.
06:17I think that there are a lot of diverse people inside of that party
06:21that focus more on the value that they add
06:24and what they provide to society.
06:27These conservative and often religious values
06:30are seen by voters as a bastion against communist ideology.
06:34I grew up in a country that was destroyed by socialism.
06:39From Miami to Houston,
06:41we explore the growing Republican vote among immigrants.