‘I want to create clothes that carry this idea of a modern beauty, always in movement,’ Alaïa creative director Pieter Mulier told Wallpaper* last year, speaking on his vision for the Parisian maison a year into his tenure (the Belgian designer began his role in 2021, the first named designer after the death of founder and couturier Azzedine Alaïa in 2017).
Movement, the body, a pursuit of beauty – preoccupations of both Mulier and Azzedine Alaïa in his lifetime – are united in a new collaboration between the house and Paris Opera Ballet on the occasion of Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber’s first work for the company, titled ‘Pit’.
