HEAD Genève MA 2025: a response to uncertain times

Norma Morel

@norma.morel_

MADELEINE draws from the designer’s grandmother’s sewing room and its archive of lace, tartan, corsetry and stored garments, using this setting to examine memory in relation to present-day identity. The collection brings lingerie references into conversation with historical menswear to address gender codes, intimacy, protection, and the relationship between strength and fragility. Lace, silk and tartan are combined with fleece and nylon, aligning domestic craft with utilitarian textiles. Techniques include layering, transparency, embroidery, textile ageing processes and tailoring, with silhouettes informed by both undergarments and formal dress. Following graduation, the designer plans to develop an independent brand and establish a boutique in Geneva, conceived as a space that brings together her own work with a curated selection of second-hand and contemporary designers, supporting a circular approach and a community built around craft and long-term engagement with clothing.

Matil Vanlint

@matil.vanlint_

V* is structured around the terms victim, violence and victory, using the body as a site where trauma, recovery and collective support are made visible through clothing. Vantlint’s collection considers how lived experiences could manifest as physical distortions of the body’s surface, and how dress can function as a tool for positioning oneself within a group and a process of healing. Tailoring forms the technical base of the work, developed without fusible interlinings and relying instead on hand-built reinforcement. The designer combines tailoring and millinery methods to generate volume without internal supports, alongside experimental pattern cutting in which garments are drafted as single pieces that form bow-like structures when laid flat, establishing a recurring motif. The collection incorporates upcycled T-shirts, discarded fabric sourced from the streets of Brussels, leather techniques, and constructions such as a skirt formed entirely through knots without seams. After graduation, Matil aims to continue learning within a fashion house and plans to apply to the Hyères International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories.

Clémentine Lejeune

@neoaladdin

Apparence Fragmentée examines the relationship between subjectivity and materiality, using clothing to explore how appearances are constructed through personal references, textures and gestures. Lejeune’s graduate project is informed by environments and figures that shape the designer’s visual and intellectual landscape, including domestic space, historical garments, music icons, philosophical writing, painting, and daily rituals of dressing. These influences are translated through an emphasis on surface and transformation rather than direct quotation. Silk fabrics (organza, taffeta and chiffon) are central, alongside white and striped poplin, with extensive use of hand-made pleating to generate volume, movement and structural flexibility. Coated textiles treated with wax introduce transparency and altered colour, highlighting material potential and change. Colour is developed through prolonged experimentation, using pleating and wax to create depth and tonal variation. Following graduation, the designer plans to continue exploring texture as a primary mode of expression, developing a practice that moves between fashion research, writing and the production of garments and textile surfaces.

Majd Eddin Zarzour

@majiknoir

The Distance 0 is structured around asymmetrical warfare and the use of dress as a tool of resistance by radicalised minorities. The collection references anticolonial and pro-Palestinian movements through symbolic colour systems, queer communities through body-affirming cuts and the mixing of gender codes, and anarchist practices through construction methods and surface treatment. Textiles are developed through DIY approaches that reject standardised techniques, prioritising adaptation, visible error and non-linear assembly. Following graduation, Majd will launch Majik Noir, a slow fashion brand based in Lausanne focused on politically informed design, local production, ready-to-wear, garment alteration services and fashion-related workshops.

Noa Toledano

@noa_toledano_dup

Everything Sinks but the Kitchen examines the experience of occupying an in-between position shaped by non-dominant cultural heritage and personal divergence from it. The collection addresses the tension between upbringing and self-construction, using clothing as a site where tradition functions as adornment, protection and concealment rather than representation. Esoteric symbolism connects religious and profane references, forming a system that reflects the loss of an imagined cultural authenticity and the need to renegotiate belonging. Materials and techniques include naturally dyed printed textiles, knitted structures, woven guitar strings and wooden scales applied to fabric. Following graduation, Noa is interning in knitwear at a Parisian fashion house, plans to apply to the Festival de Hyères, and intends to further develop experimental knitwear alongside an independent creative practice.