"Muddy Sea"
LandscapeCore
By Tanguy Mélinand
This collection is about memory: the memory of places, sensations, and moments that continue to exist within us despite distance and time.
Through it, I explore the landscapes that shaped me: their atmosphere, colours, textures, and the memories attached to them. The collection’s palette reflects these tones and gives them a tangible form, both visually and sensorially.
The pastel colours that run throughout it stem from an even more pervasive hue: nostalgia. It softens memories, reshapes their contours, and prolongs a feeling of freedom.
I return to these landscapes through workwear, a material expression of these recollections, rooted in lived experiences. I observe and reinterpret a vocabulary of gestures and uses, creating silhouettes imbued with these influences. It is a way of paying tribute to the people who have shaped my region.
For this collection, textile development plays a central role. Each piece carries within it a fragment of a story. Colour, material, and cut work together to bring these places back to life, visually and almost physically.
Ultimately, this collection is also a way of speaking about myself.
It is a love letter to the environment that shaped me, an ode to my adolescence, my friends, my memories, and the landscapes that still live within me.
It is a way of telling the story of the passing of time.
And of saying thank you.