T-07
06 / 10Velarde Atelier

WAAR

Still from the WAAR film: a model’s face, half lit, through blue haze.

film — Velarde Spring 2026: WAAR

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Human experience is shaped by interconnected relationships between people, animals, plants, and infrastructure, producing both mutual benefit and harm. We Are All Related (WAAR) translates this interconnectedness into a 21-look runway show, using masks to dissolve individual identity and a nonlinear performance structure to create spontaneous interactions between models, audience, and light. The result is an immersive exploration of collective experience, underpinned by a conceptual framework in which opacity measures conscious perception and density represents impact, revealing how experiences accumulate to shape both individual perception and the interconnected whole.

Masked models moving between bare trees at dusk during the show.

the arrival

Audience members were led from a decoy meeting point through a sequence of thresholds before reaching the venue, progressively separating them from the familiar world. T-07 designed the journey as an intentional progression, transforming each passage into a sensory and psychological transition. The result was an immersive arrival experience in which successive thresholds compounded to cultivate a trance-like state, preparing the audience to enter the world of the performance.

Section drawing of an arched threshold on the route to the venue.
Two stacked plaster faces on a figure draped in rough cloth, against black.
A model wearing a cattle-skull mask at night.
A model in a skull mask and layered indigo garments, lit by flash.
A horned figure walking down a dark path toward the camera.
A white horned mask and fur cape among guests holding umbrellas.
A performer in antlers and loose cords standing by a tree at night.