Photographer Rita Castel-Branco takes us backstage at Ottolinger Spring Summer 2027 collection at Paris Fashion Week where Offset and Hedi Klum were among the famous faces in this VEIN MAGAZINE exclusive!
What if getting dressed could feel as good as applying your favourite moisturizer? For Spring Summer 2027, Ottolinger explored exactly that idea with Moisturizer, a collection built around the relationship between clothing, skin and confidence. The Swiss-founded, Berlin based label, founded by designers Christa Bösch and Cosima Gadient, brought its signature deconstruction into a softer space, playing with twisted drapes, body hugging silhouettes and pieces designed to feel almost like a second skin.
The collection imagined clothing as a form of self care, moving between the studio, beach and late night. Deconstructed tailoring and denim appeared alongside lurex bikinis, while fine silk viscose jersey was draped across the body with the fluidity of rich cream. It was still unmistakably Ottolinger, where exposed construction and unconventional proportions meet a more sensual approach to dressing. The label was founded in 2016 by Bösch and Gadient after they met at the Basel School of Design, and its Berlin base has become central to a design language built around transformation, reconstruction and experimentation.
Heidi Klum at Ottolinger backstage
Coi Leray at Ottolinger backstage
Offset at Ottolinger backstage
Adding another layer of spectacle to the Paris runway, Heidi Klum, Coi Leray and Offset made surprise appearances among the models. Their presence reinforced the collection’s meeting point between fashion and pop culture, while Moisturizer itself proposed a more intimate kind of statement: clothes as something that can nourish the person wearing them, leaving them feeling a little more radiant than when they arrived.
Backtstage images by Rita Castel-Branco for VEIN MAGAZINE
