HEAD – Genève presents NEXT FORM, an exhibition by the Department of Fashion, Jewelry, and Accessories, organized in conjunction with Paris Design Week.
The exhibition brings together Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis projects through works centered on form, the body, and materiality.
Located in the heart of the Marais, NEXT FORM offers a unique meeting place for professionals in fashion, design, and contemporary creation.

Among the projects on display:

• Hippolyte Laporte – Anamorphoses 
  Anamorphoses follows characters dressing for a bourgeois dinner and initially negotiating the rules of etiquette. As they continue trying on clothes, the dinner gradually recedes into the background: garments become instruments of play, transformation and fiction. The characters dress up, experiment with new identities and move away from the image they were expected to inhabit. Out of this succession of fittings emerges the idea of a surreal ball, both utopian and fantastical. The collection turns the act of dressing into a space in which norms can be shifted and reinvented.
   
• Fiona Giazzi – Threshold : Ruptured Surfaces 
  Threshold: Ruptured Surfaces follows a procession of characters at the moment when a cycle comes to an end. Between interior and exterior, some leave a party while others arrive; the garments protect as much as they reveal. Mourning accompanies this passage as points of reference shift and certain forms begin to dissolve. Preserving, collecting and archiving become essential gestures against forgetting. The collection connects rupture, memory and release, leading towards the possibility of recovering one’s own language after it has been constrained or censored, and reclaiming what had been lost. 

• Omar Amorim-Esenli – Numéro Vendeur 4
  Numéro Vendeur 4 grew out of Omar Amorim-Esenli’s eleven months of civil service at Emmaüs Genève, a place he came to perceive as a “purgatory of capitalism”. Objects, garments, memories and people coexist there between abandonment, waiting and the possibility of reactivation. The collection translates this tension into silhouettes marked by attraction, repulsion and alienation. Labour becomes a physical as much as a social condition: the body works, wanders, waits and eventually merges with what constrains it. The project thus questions the contradictions of labour and the forms of alienation they produce. 

• Lou Gattlen – "Push & Pull" 
  Push & Pull places the handle at the centre of bag design. Initially approached as a simple functional element, it gradually becomes the principle that determines the volume, shape and transformation of each piece. The research considers how we grasp, carry and move objects, as well as the physical relationship between hand, handle and bag. By making this usually secondary element the starting point of the project, the collection develops new uses and constructions in which function no longer follows form but directly produces it.

• Kelig Trésallet – Paris-Brest 
  Paris-Brest begins with the goûter, a pause in the middle of a busy day. Flavours, aromas, conversation and childhood memories inform a feminine wardrobe in which structured elegance gradually loosens. Volumes soften, overflow and rise like pastries; a suit becomes a teapot ready to serve its guests. The collection shifts indulgence from the realm of taste to that of clothing. Between nostalgia, pleasure and letting go, Kelig Trésallet turns this familiar ritual into a language of dress and imagines clothes that retain something of the sweetness, excess and conviviality of the goûter. 

• Zakarie Boubekeur – Straycore 
  Straycore emerges from urban wandering and the practice of drifting. Since 2022, Zakarie Boubekeur has built an archive of images gathered during walks without a destination in different cities. This material informs a wardrobe where posture, function and observation of the urban landscape meet. Between popular culture and figures encountered in the street, the silhouettes translate a way of looking at the city in motion and gradually absorbing it. The project turns this position of mobile observer into an identity of its own, culminating in the symbolic figure of the stray dog.