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Alice Vaillant’s silhouettes reflect a new feminity. Embroideries, ruffles, and lace bands are all classic codes of femininity reworked in a contemporary and liberating way.

Based in Paris, VAILLANT is a French luxury women's RTW brand that offers a hybrid and empowered wardrobe.

The brand strives to embody a strong, sensual, and disruptive vision of femininity.

Being part of the Paris Opera Ballet for ten years, classical dance has shaped a large part of Alice’s aesthetic sense that revolves around performance and movement. Her designs are immersed in this language, but also simultaneously break free from these classic ballet codes.

The collections are focused on rigidity, on one hand, but at the same time deconstruct this rigidity on the other. They explore movement and contemporary form for a fundamental play with opposites: the feminine and the masculine, motion and constraint, openness and rigor, free-flow, and direction. 

Alice works with the layering of materials, mixing technical pieces and free flowing styles. She displays geometrical and architectural silhouettes that are contrasted with fluid fabrics and materials. She works with contrast in either color, shape, or cut. Alice’s creations are easily recognizable by her use of lace, which is an integral part of the brand’s DNA and serves as a strong and essential visual code for VAILLANT. 

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