Spring/Summer 2025 Capsule Collection
“Antoinette 1999”
Antoinette 1999 is House of Alvin’s iconic Printemps-Été 25 collection — an audacious world of inherited luxury, scandal, and reinvention. Inspired by five heiresses escaping into the night in their mothers’ haute couture, the collection transforms the opulence of Louis XVI’s court through the irreverence of 1990s nightlife. Deadstock furs, upcycled alligator leather corsets, gilded textiles, pearls, and theatrical silhouettes collide in a vision of couture as rebellion: romantic, decadent, and defiantly alive.
Model Courtney Frances in the Antointte Couture Piece
Under Candlelight…
she emerges in full decadence.
Look 1 of Antoinette 1999 captures the moment before mythology begins — serene, gilded, and suspended in the hush of the court. She enters not yet as scandal, but as apparition: all satin, roses, and ceremony, wrapped in the softness of arrival. It is the beauty before the rupture, the stillness before spectacle; a vision of Marie Antoinette at the threshold of power, where innocence, luxury, and destiny briefly exist in perfect silence.
Amy Purcell wearing the Antoinette Couture Piece at the SS25 Fashion Show
The Antoinete 1999 Looks
presenting…
The looks that follow trace her descent from serenity into spectacle — each one peeling back another layer of the court’s fantasy. Satin gives way to tension, sweetness to defiance, and ceremony to performance, as Antoinette 1999 reimagines the queen not as a relic of history, but as a girl caught between innocence, excess, rebellion, and ruin. Corsetry tightens, silhouettes fracture, bows swell into armour, and every garment becomes a scene in the unraveling: beauty becoming chaos, luxury becoming provocation, and fantasy becoming couture.
“Oriental Rouge”
Duchess silk satin with freshwater pearl and faux fur bolero, worn by Model Chloe Bong
“Iris De Malte”
Lilac duchess satin with hand-made silk flowers, worn by Model Kateřina Šebestová
“Aquamarine”
Duchess silk satin with freshwater pearl and faux fur bolero, worn by Model Lina Kanki
“Montagne De Jade”
Duchess silk satin with freshwater pearl and faux fur bolero, worn by Model Keziah Biggins
Transformation
At the close of the look, serenity gives way to spectacle. What first appears as a full courtly gown — composed, romantic, and ceremonial — suddenly transforms, releasing its outer layer in a single theatrical gesture. The reveal becomes the rupture: a moment where innocence breaks into defiance, beauty turns into performance, and Antoinette 1999 declares itself not simply as a collection, but as a world built on transformation.
“Wedding Impérial”
Golden Etoupe Duchess Satin with hand-beaded corset, worn by Model Amy Purcell
Available by Enquiry
Antoinette 1999 pieces are available as selected ready-to-wear, demi-couture, or couture commissions depending on the garment. For clients seeking a more personal interpretation, the House may adapt an existing silhouette through colour, fit, fabric, or detail, subject to atelier availability. Private appointments are available online or at our London showroom.
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