RESIDENCY

Lisa Rayar is a Paris-based fashion designer with a multidisciplinary arts education from Ecole de Condé in Lyon, IICC Fashion in Marseille, and LISAA Fashion in Paris, where she completed a Master's Degree in Fashion Design and Brand Creation specializing in art direction, collection design, brand strategy, and eco-design. Her work centers on women's ready-to-wear: bold-volume silhouettes with intricate technical construction, crafted from deadstock and organic textiles and finished through manual dyeing and hand-knitting techniques that produce entirely singular textures. The result is garments often described as wearable art, drawing inspiration from nature and structural forms, where craft and concept are inseparable. Lisa's cultural value lies in her conviction that luxury does not require waste. Through rigorous textile research, local production, and the creative reuse of deadstock materials, she demonstrates that ethical fashion and creative excellence are natural partners. Her professional foundation spans several distinct fashion houses, including Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Soeur, Uniqlo, Calishi, and Amore Mimmo, giving her fluency across women's ready-to-wear, pattern-making, and sustainable production systems. She has also achieved recognition in multiple competitions, including publications in the magazine Tout'Ma, first prize in the Uniqlo competition in 2022, participation in the Degermann and Negresco fashion shows, and third place in the "New Icons" contest.

Mickaël Nana is a Paris-based womenswear and menswear fashion designer, holder of a Bachelor's degree from École Duperré and a Master's degree in Fashion and Materials jointly delivered by Université Paris Dauphine and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, and the founder of MARLON NANA, a label built at the intersection of fashion, craftsmanship, and speculative futures. The brand produces narrative-driven ready-to-wear for men and women: luxury tailoring with experimental volumes, rendered through deep technical mastery in pattern-making, draping, knitwear development, and garment construction. Its debut collection, Perseverance, named after the NASA rover sent to Mars in 2020, presents six looks imagining the first civilization on Mars, fusing sportswear, tailoring, and West African style codes into a single, coherent world. This is the brand's cultural proposition: treating Afro-diasporic heritage not as a reference but as a structural and narrative foundation, reinterpreted through the lens of surrealism, science fiction, and Western tailoring codes. MARLON NANA extends beyond garments into objects, music, and audiovisual production, all unified by an aesthetic that positions sub-Saharan African cultures within a speculative, forward-looking imagination. A graduate prize winner of the LVMH Prize 2024, Mickaël joined the studio of Dior Homme for one year, further grounding his practice in the highest tier of luxury craftsmanship. His professional experience spans Christian Dior Couture (Junior and Assistant Designer, Men's Ready-to-Wear), Koché, and IKKS Women.