Orient to Paris, Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Long sweater dress in ivory crêpe satin embroidered with silver and crystal, with armfuls of long feathers and ivory organza strips.
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Orient to Paris, Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Between Light and Vertigo
Dalida. Born on January 17, 1933, in Cairo, Dalida—whose real name is Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti and who is professionally known as Dalida—is an Italian-born, naturalized French singer and actress. Throughout her international career, Dalida sold more than 140 million records worldwide. Dalida performed legendary concert series at the famous Olympia music hall in Paris, where she consolidated her global stardom. Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection, speaks to this famous venue.
Some places transcend architecture. Places that become voices. Places where time does not fade but settles, day after day, into the collective memory. Olympia is one of them. This Haute Couture collection was born from that resonance.
Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Miss Oumaima Taleb, who wears a long, backless sweater dress in white crêpe embroidered with crystals.
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Marbled silicone sweater and arum skirt in white silk gazar
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From a silhouette that has traveled through decades without ever disappearing. Dalida. Not as an icon frozen in nostalgia, but as a living presence within our contemporary imagination. A woman whose elegance was never an artifice but a way of inhabiting the world. An artist who transformed fragility into strength, melancholy into light, and emotion into a universal language.
Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Marbled silicone sweater and arum skirt in white silk gazar
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Juponné sweater dress in white crêpe and organza, embroidered with translucent silicone and crystal
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Her story carries a singular cultural richness that continues to resonate today. Born in Cairo, in a cosmopolitan Egypt shaped by Mediterranean, Eastern, French, and Italian influences, Dalida forged an artistic language that transcended borders. Her arrival in Paris affirmed her as a truly universal artist, capable of bringing different worlds together within a single emotion. This dual identity, between East and West, heritage and modernity, nourished her entire body of work and remains remarkably contemporary.
Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Zouave trouser jumpsuit in white pleated chiffon embroidered with grey agate and crystal. Coat in greige velvet macramé.
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Zouave trouser jumpsuit in white pleated chiffon embroidered with grey agate and crystal. Coat in greige velvet macramé.
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“Long before cultural diversity became a celebrated value, she embodied the circulation of sensibilities, aesthetics, and imaginaries. Her elegance carried the richness of the world itself, transformed into an expression that was at once deeply personal and universally shared. Through these thirty-three silhouettes, I sought to translate that rare tension between strength and vulnerability. That unique way great performers stood before an audience, exposed and invincible at once—that ability to create profound emotion through silence as much as through light.”
Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Maxi trapeze dress in silk gazar embroidered with terracotta agate and gold silicone.
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Maxi trapeze dress in silk gazar embroidered with terracotta agate and gold silicone.
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Bustier dress in white satin macramé, with an overskirt of organza ruching and white ostrich feathers.
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White dominates the collection like an unwritten page. Crêpe, gazar, chiffon, organza, and satin compose an almost immaterial landscape, animated by air, light, and movement. Volumes seem suspended between appearance and disappearance. Dresses become breaths. Capes become presences. Long pareos, coats, and trapeze silhouettes create an allure that is free, sovereign, and timeless.
Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Bustier dress in white satin macramé, with an overskirt of organza ruching and white ostrich feathers.
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Long draped scarf dress in pleated crêpe satin, embroidered with onyx and gold silicone.
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Long draped scarf dress in pleated crêpe satin, embroidered with onyx and gold silicone.
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The embroideries tell another story. Agates, crystals, diamonds, mother-of-pearl, porcelain, and precious stones are never used as ornament alone but as fragments of emotion. Every sparkle becomes a suspended note. Every reflection evokes a lingering phrase that resonates long after the music has faded.
Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Waves” dress in white silk gazar embroidered with silver and crystal
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Long poncho sweater in white cashmere knit and pleated white organza. Sculptural necklace in ivory lacquered metal
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Olympia is never far away. It appears in the verticality of silhouettes moving toward the light, in the precision of gesture, in the almost magnetic presence of certain gowns. Each passage seems to narrate a moment of life. Some silhouettes unfold like melodies. Others like silences. The collection also draws inspiration from the great lyricists of that era.
Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Tunic dress and trapeze skirt in red “Olympia” velvet, embroidered with rock crystal. Long kimono coat in ivory shantung.
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Tunic dress in white wool gazar, embroidered with rock crystal, amethyst, and onyx. Long bisht coat in white wool gazar.
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“The words of Jacques Brel and Léo Ferré, their unique ability to explore love, longing, desire, solitude, and hope without ever surrendering to ease. A form of writing in which emotion is not an effect but a truth. That sincerity is what I sought to capture. The silhouettes evolve like chapters in a recital. The opening looks emerge in almost absolute light. Gradually, the materials gain density, embroideries multiply, and volumes unfold. Deep reds, intense blacks, and flashes of silver progressively enrich the narrative.”
Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Tunic dress in white wool gazar, embroidered with rock crystal, amethyst, and onyx. Long bisht coat in white wool gazar.
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Long openwork dress in white crêpe. Long cape in white crêpe with a pleated satin collar embroidered with mother-of-pearl and crystal.
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Long openwork dress in white crêpe. Long cape in white crêpe with a pleated satin collar embroidered with mother-of-pearl and crystal.
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“As in a song, the emotion rises without ever losing its restraint. Dalida shared an extraordinary relationship with couture. She instinctively understood the power of clothing, not as a symbol of status but as an extension of emotion. The great couturiers who dressed her enhanced her presence without ever overshadowing it. That idea remains at the heart of my work: creating garments that reveal the individual rather than erase them. Through this collection, I am not seeking to recreate an era. I am seeking to recover a feeling.”
Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Scarf dress in white wool crêpe and distressed tweed
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Scarf dress in white wool crêpe and distressed tweed
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Long openwork tailored dress in white crêpe with organza ruching and black ostrich feathers. Embroidered with white agate and rock crystal.
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Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Bustier dress with a Watteau back, in white crêpe embroidered with rock crystal.
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The feeling of an artist stepping alone onto a stage and filling the space with an intensity beyond words. The feeling of a woman whose grace seemed to emerge as much from her vulnerabilities as from her strength.
Stéphane Rolland, Haute Couture 2026/2027 Fall/Winter Collection – Between Light and Vertigo
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Stephane Rolland with Miss Oumaima Taleb, who wears a long, backless sweater dress in white crêpe embroidered with crystals.
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In a world saturated with instant images, Dalida remains a figure of timelessness. Her elegance, depth, and humanity continue to converse with the present. She reminds us that modernity does not reside in speed but in the ability to touch something universal. This collection is dedicated to that permanence. To beauty that survives time. To emotion that never fades. To the woman, the artist, the light. To Dalida – Stephane Rolland
Crédits : L’Olympia, Raphaëlle Le Ny, Morgan Chogon, Hanna Prat, Grégoire Danset. Musique : Thomas Verovski. Coiffure : Bjorn Axen, Johan Hellström. Maquillage : M.A.C. Baltasar Gonzalez. Photos : Manon Gardelle, Paul Martinez, Franck Perrogon, Victor Virgile. Albama, écran LED : Joël May. Décor : Durango Laurent. Tabouret : Magali Thomas. Maquette : Polo Concept. Production : Pierre Martinez.
