Butterfly Season one
ROTTEN TO THE CORE SS23![]()
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For SS23, Clara Colette Miramon presents a bittersweet collection inspired by the apple harvestingheritage of her homeland. Looking to the traditional Tracht garments worn at fruit-picking festivals in Germany’s Altes Land, the Berlin designer invigorates countryside conservatism with her emboldened brand of freshly squeezed juice and femininity.
Captivated by the gadget girls of 00’s TV show Totally Spies, the designer’s second collection channels the almost otherworldly power of female intimacy. A tongue-touching slip dress conceived in collaboration with French artist Camille Soulat explores the inexplicable and intrinsic connection felt whe women come together. Elsewhere, silky skin-tight trousers, mesh leggings and figure-hugging dresses continue the designer’s ongoing fascination with empowered female sexuality by embracing the wea-rer’s form. Miramon’s signature corsetry also returns, rendered in candy apple red.
Its boning silhouette is echoed in the collection’s pink washed denim jacket and crop top.
“This collection was inspired by sisterhood and that kind of ‘us against the world’ mentality. It may en-compass darkness, but it transforms into something magical.”- clara colette miramon.
The campaign was shot in Grunewald by Matias Alfonzo styling and creative direction by Lia Sadeghi.
CCM SS25 nesting
On the centenary of surrealism clara colette miramon debuts her first runway show paying tribute to the often overlooked surrealist women, drawing inspiration from three iconic figures who heavily influenced the movement while living in 1930s Paris: Dorothea Tanning, Meret Oppenheim, and Leonor Fini. The starting point is their outrageous personalities and the mixture of beauty and terror underlying their works.
Dreams and distortions are the epicenter of their artistic production. Tanning's soft sculptures provocatively explore femininity, finding echoes in garments lined with trimmed faux fur, crafted from printed mesh. The padded skeleton look, a reinterpretation of a dress made for Elsa Schiaparelli by Oppenheim, evolved from her sculpture work. The presence of rat imagery throughout the collection – in prints and embroidery – draws from Fini’s fascination with taxidermy, transforming an animal often deemed repulsive into an object of beauty.