Tatras AW25 presentation

Inciting anthropomorphic conversations that bridge time and space, the TATRAS Autumn Winter 2025 presentation curated by Mehdi Dakhli is a polyphonic happening fusing art, music and fashion. Orchestrated in a liminal space in the heart of Haussmann’s Paris, a durational performance frames the collection within the remnants of a forgotten architecture. Building upon the TATRAS principles of balance and simplicity, notions of protection and explorations of the extraordinary coexist within a suspended moment scored by the Belgian musician and composer Bill John Bultheel. In an extended edit of Mt. Analogue (Bourse de Commerce, 2023), Bultheel presents a haunting composition for piano, brass and the medieval ‘serpent’ instrument, inspired by Sophocles’ satirical drama The Bloodhounds - a text recounting Apollo’s first experience of music.

Once more applying his curatorial practice and creative direction to evolving expressions of the TATRAS universe, Dakhli invites new conversations between disciplines, here positioning the Autumn Winter 2025 collection in dialogue with the building’s transitory dilapidation, Bultheel’s coercive soundscape, and the sculptural series Totems (2020-2024) by the French artist Stéphane Margolis punctuated with ikebana. Nods to the Memphis movement and the theatre costumes of Bauhaus protagonist Oskar Schlemmer lend the scene a graphic lyricism, as Margolis’ humanoid monoliths incite parallels with the collection’s palette of mist and cobalt, peat brown, cool grey, black and soft neutrals.