Photo Credits: Acielle/Syle Du Monde

Behind the scenes at Viktor & Rolf Spring Couture 2025, the atmosphere hummed with a quiet, focused tension—a space where fantasy awaited its final breath before becoming reality. In the half-light of the backstage corridors, models stood still as living sculptures, their bodies encased in towering volumes and improbable angles, while nimble hands made the last, almost invisible adjustments.

Photo Credits: Acielle/Syle Du Monde

Photo Credits: Isidore Montag

Photo Credits: Acielle/Syle Du Monde

Seamstresses smoothed out a rebellious pleat; a makeup artist traced a line of shadow beneath an eye, as if sketching emotion itself. The garments—monumental and delicate at once—seemed to hold their breath, poised between atelier and runway, between conception and revelation.

In this hidden world, time dissolved. There was only the rhythm of preparation: a fastening here, a whispered word there, the collective heartbeat of a team on the edge of spectacle. Moments later, the curtain would rise, but in those fleeting instants backstage, the true magic of couture unfolded—not in the spotlight, but in the silence before it.

Photo Credits: Isidore Montag/ Reproduction