EDELINE LEE Spring Summer 2027 Film

LONDON FASHION WEEK 20 SEPTEMBER 2026 "THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS" Un. Deux. Trois. Quatre. A dancer performs a twinkling bourée across a tennis court, bell skirt swaying, while another, in a rippling emerald gown with sculpted tutu and a three-metre train, struggles to push a huge white ball across the weight room. A trio of red-clad dancers practice exercises by the pool to the voice of a ballet mistress. Un. Deux. Trois. Quatre. Cinq. Six. Sept. Huit. For Spring Summer 2027 EDELINE LEE explores the myth of Sisyphus through ballet's repetition, discipline and pursuit of perfection, transforming struggle into something graceful and beautiful. A lyrical film by Jake Knight and Ryoko Tanaka (Ne-o) with an original score by Tom Burke brings dancers from Britain's top ballet companies into a London school to perform Xolisweh Ana Richards' choreography. EDELINE LEE commented: "There's a general feeling right now of relentlessness, a Sisyphean cycle. I was already thinking about the ballet - dance is incredibly transporting, but the work behind it is so intense, the way dancers train for years, the endless repetition, for one ecstatic moment of performance, and then they're back in the studio. I wanted to acknowledge the rigour and hard work behind that moment - much like the skill and artistry required of my team to present beautiful clothes." The collection, presented in a school gym with the Sisyphean backstage labour behind the dream laid bare, engages with the ballet aesthet