Samsøe Samsøe, Garance Vallée and Franck Pellegrino recently showcased their collaboration during a pop-up at Paris Fashion Week, which was open to the public from the 23rd till the 27th of June, and managed to wow on multiple fronts. The Paris-based creatives combined their talents to create a unique experience.

By using Pellegrino’s artistic architectural reconstruction, each piece of denim was rebuilt whilst finding a way to still pay homage to the brand. Not scale-produced, but one-of-a-kind pieces, accompanied by two additional items (released in limited runs): a leather jacket and a long-sleeve T-shirt. His approach to the collection draws on spray paint, patchwork, hand-stencilled type, and other techniques inspired by the 90s and early-2000s denim culture, re-used and remade for today’s fashion.

The space itself was handled by Vallée, not just to serve as a showroom but to truly reflect the same feel as the clothes. Brushed metal and glossy vinyl show up as art pieces in their own right, feeling industrial yet mirroring the hand-worked textiles around them. Creating an immersive experience, working in tandem with the pieces.

As Garance Vallée and Franck Pellegrino beautifully put it: “This collaboration is about the meeting point between gesture and material, where Franck’s handcraft and my spatial thinking become one language. Through Samsøe Samsøe denim, we’ve built an environment that moves between fashion, art and interior design. It is an immersive journey into blue.”

The exhibition succeeded in blending Vallée’s architectural artistic design, Pellegrino’s textile skills, and Samsøe Samsøe’s Scandinavian wearable aesthetic into one. 

In honor of this, the trio co-hosted a community gathering during PFW for friends, collaborators, and the wider creative crowd. And luckily for us, even though the pop-up is over, items from the collection can still be obtained at samsoe.com.