Amid the reworked classics within Natacha Ramsay-Levi’s new collection for A.P.C. – the quintessential trench coat shorn off at the waist and the wide-leg jeans tied with a white lace; the ornamental pendant that’s actually comprised of nuts and bolts – is a T-shirt upon which a photograph of her own body is printed, a thick band of tape placed across her chest. ‘I wanted something intimate and sincere. I liked the idea that you could feel my hand behind it,’ says the designer, who since leaving her post as creative director at Chloé in 2020 has embarked on a series of similar, small-scale projects (including a stint at Ecco Leather’s At.Kollektive that began in 2022; later, she would become a ‘creative partner’ of the Danish leather brand, designing a collection called NRL).
‘I was at the beginning of finding a new way to work, not in a group or big fashion studio, so I liked the idea of something a bit crafty. This idea of the tape, about doing things in a spontaneous way,’ she says.
