Lace, leather, and the pause before the flash: Magda Butrym’s Paris Fashion Week moments
Magda Butrym arrived in Paris the way a designer walks into her own studio — quietly, but with an authority that hums. Her latest collection, The Studio, shown at Paris Fashion Week, marked the brand’s tenth season with a sensual collision of hosiery, draping, and lingerie textures that seemed on the verge of unravelling — yet were held together by sharply cut leather coats and sculptural tailoring.
On the runway, Butrym staged a dialogue between the handmade and the intimate: garments that felt like finished sketches, pieces that fold, twist, and crease with intention. The palette stayed restrained — structured blacks and soft neutrals — until it wasn’t: punctuated by romantic bursts of volume and micro silhouettes that balanced fragility and control.
But the real statement was in the staging. The show’s name wasn’t metaphorical — The Studio unfolded as an homage to process. Think seams left visible, layers over layers, clothes that reveal the act of making rather than conceal it. The concept hovered around the artist observing her own creation, each look a conversation between discipline and desire.
And here’s the part we’re thrilled about: we have exclusive backstage photos, shot by Milena Baeza. These aren’t the glossy runway moments you’ve already seen — they’re the raw, breathing pauses between the chaos. Baeza’s lens caught the quiet tension before a model steps out, the quick hands of a stylist fixing a strap, the smudged lipstick that somehow makes it all more real. If the runway was the statement, the backstage was the confession — and we’ve got the evidence.
For Magda Butrym, this collection signals an evolution: a deliberate refinement that doesn’t trade away the brand’s Slavic-romantic core, but instead deepens it. It’s elegance without obedience, sensuality without noise. The Studio feels like a designer looking in the mirror and liking what she sees — imperfection included.
In short: a show that whispered rather than shouted. With silhouettes suspended between the constructed and the undone — and with Baeza’s exclusive backstage imagery capturing the heartbeat behind the gloss — Magda Butrym reminded Paris that subtlety, too, can be loud.
Photography by Milena Baeza for VEIN MAGAZINE
