MARINE SERRE - MARÉE NOIRE Spring/Summer 2020

Imagine… by hiding in caves and shelters deep underground, small, but illustrious, groups have survived the Apocalypse: climate wars; heatwaves; mass extinction. Closely knit by their past experiences and shared trouble under the old regime, they are coming out of their hideouts and gaining awareness of themselves in the wasteland of oil and water left behind by their predecessors. Temperatures have gone up radically; more self-confident than ever, they adapt and codify their futurist-shamanic styles, and their transformative themes, to birth several clans across generations, species, and genders. For the first of these, black is the preferred colour before all others, encompassing moiré uniforms, leather embossed pants and sculpted dresses, oily raincoats, and shaped black satin looks. Black: referring to rebellion, radicalism, and autonomy, but also maturity, simplicity, and abstinence. The second adapts tailoring to the new conditions with a range of red and brown jacquard styles evolving into a desert scuba-djellaba dress made of fluid red silk scarves. The third of the communities entirely dispels all ways of the old establishment and their outdated nature-culture divide, aiming for deep spiritualist bonds across the entities: they make do with what they find. Crochet knitted tablecloths are serially repurposed into dresses and tops; bed sheets and curtains of the old world become daily dresses; former nightgowns, lace and old wool knitted shawls are transformed into