Paving the way in luxury prêt-à-porter

Chloé was founded in 1952 by Gaby Aghion, an Egyptian-born Parisienne who liberated women from the formal fashion of the era by pioneering luxury ready-to-wear. Today, the Maison is a leading luxury French fashion house, which continues to embrace the founder’s vision of free-spirited femininity and effortlessness under the creative direction of Chemena Kamali.

The piece presented at Homo Faber 2026 was created as an exploration of raffia’s untapped potential, in collaboration with Madagascar-based studio Made For A Woman. While the raffia fibre has long been associated with traditional craftsmanship in Madagascar, it is rarely used as a structural material within collectible design. The project therefore began with a simple question: how far could raffia be pushed while remaining true to its origins? The creation is an invitation to reconsider the material and the furniture object.