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Matiere Noire is a Paris-based creative studio leading new approaches to spacial design. Built on a network of parallel disciplines, our operation cultivates ambivalence, using observational methods to ground its intuitive impulses. Matière Noire is driven by an appetite for the undefined, the hypothetical, the intangible. Its process celebrates unexpected derivations, developing them into bespoke applications of cross-cultural collaboration.

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Spatial design studio
Light design
Scenography

Within Florence's historic greenhouse, the installation transforms existing windows into a palimpsest of light and shadow. Each window overlay creates new architectural meaning, where boundaries between interior and exterior, past and present, become deliberately ambiguous. The colorimetric intervention operates as a temporal editing system, altering the visual DNA of each garment through zones of chromatic intensity. Models materialize, and dematerialize within alternating colour fields that evoke the frames of a roll of film. The light design creates simultaneous realities - warm amber hues evoke botanical heritage, while cool LEDs speak to Margiela's muted futurism.

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