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 degree 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:

• Maelle Lezebot et Flora Lingenhel – Tender Objects 
  Tender Objects gives renewed presence to inherited garments and jewellery that have become too precious or fragile to wear. A lace slip becomes a bag, sleeves wrap around the hands, and silk muslin set in silver takes on the appearance of stone. Between jewellery and performance, the pieces retain traces of those who wore them before us while proposing another way of keeping them in use. Fragile, evolving and sensitive to wear, they reflect on our relationship to intimate objects, transmission and the passage of time.
   
• Flora Pagliarani – Archeologia familiare 
  Archeologia familiare transforms old family jewellery — broken, forgotten or no longer worn — into new blown-glass forms. The pieces preserve traces of the original objects while transferring them into a material that is more fragile and changeable. The project considers how memories evolve, distort and recompose over time. By bringing family memory, experimentation and material transformation into dialogue, the collection gives renewed presence to objects charged with emotional value. 
   
• Akriti – Entre-Deux
  Entre-deux brings together jewellery and accessories around an identity shaped between two countries. Evoking the growth of a seed into a tree, the collection combines Lokta paper, associated with the fragility and memory of the country of origin, with wood, which embodies the stability of a life built in Switzerland. Treated to become translucent and durable, the paper reveals its fibres in the light, while the wood is 3D-printed into organic forms. Bringing traditional and contemporary materials together, the collection expresses a dual sense of belonging and presents the in-between as a space of creation, balance and strength. 
   
• Rose Perle Dubas – Tools noise for a quiet daydream  
  Tools noise for a quiet daydream revisits Swiss rural heritage through traditional agricultural tools. Born from a reflection on the image of Switzerland during an exchange in Glasgow, the collection draws on Rose Perle Dubas’s childhood memories in Valais and on tools preserved by her grandfather. Made from iron, sterling silver, leather and smoky quartz, the seven pieces translate the memory of these objects, their traces of use and the knowledge embedded in them into jewellery. The collection brings family heritage, rural culture and contemporary design into dialogue. 
   
• Jeanne Broquet –  La vitrine sentimentale
  La vitrine sentimentale focuses on the memory of first dates: those moments when two strangers meet, imagine a future, fall in love or part without one. Drawing on dates, places, names and emotions, Jeanne Broquet creates a series of archival jewellery pieces that transform intimate traces into objects to be worn. Each piece preserves the memory of an encounter, whether it left a lasting mark or simply passed through a life for a moment, giving tangible form to memories that are deeply personal yet widely shared.
   
• Pauline Martin  – Survis ! 
  Survis ! examines the fascination with bodily optimisation and the pursuit of immortality through the lens of biohacking. Rituals, tools and symbols associated with these practices inform a series of manifesto pieces in which bodies appear transformed, augmented or constrained. The collection confronts the desire to push the limits of existence with rapid developments in medical technologies and artificial intelligence. It opens a reflection on the social, ethical and human consequences of a society seeking to prolong youth, improve the body and perhaps move beyond its own finitude.