Through his 6th collection, Autumn/Winter 07, Romain Kremer asserts his sense of difference: half gods, statues of marble and flesh, fake antique relics clad in sheared black velvet, Lurex and blue-green prints. With anachronism in mind, this is an introduction to Ancient Greece and History, without true foundation, in a world of «liquefied» statues. A print designed from an odd picture, a grave in the Père-Lachaise cemetery, followed by a study to digitalize marble and make it techno. Basic materials, cotton sweaters, mixed with refined pieces or sometimes deliberately naff Lurex and Lamé. Just for the pleasure to transcend unlikely shapes or materials.
Romain Kremer has been telling fashion stories since he came out of    the Ecole supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré and finished his work placements at Christian Dior’s and Gaspard Yurkievich’s. His first collection, Spring/Summer 2004, is a questioning on clothing between acceptance of one’s own eccentricity and self-negation, hesitating between dress and fancy dress, reality and the absurd.
A basic sportswear look with added exaggerated volumes, poetry and references to sports competition. Surprising figures on tour with a big circus a bit further east, or back from a trip out of time and space like the Bogdanov brothers. Kremer was awarded a prize for its «creative universe» at the 2005 International Fashion and Photography Festival in Hyères. Used to performances, «J’en Rêve», «Nomades», a theme evening at the Cartier Foundation, or wardrobe master for the Preljocaj ballet in Aix-en-Provence, Romain Kremer likes to tackle many things at once, to favour improvisation, to multiply trials. The next try to convert will be in July at the Tapis Rouge.
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-  Caroline Cornu / Translator Véronique Amathe  -