Barnabé Fillion: Sculpting the Invisible
Architecture, design, and other forms of art all find a place within ANEST’s poetic universe.
Each opens onto another constellation, where creativity takes shape through encounters with others and with oneself.
In July, at the height of summer, ANEST collaborated with THE PLANT magazine on Botanical Encounters, a series that led us to the workspace of French perfumer Barnabé Fillion, and to the ideas and works that surround his practice.Barnabé Fillion wears ANEST COLLECTIVE Spring Summer menswear, expressing the sensorial poetry of scent through garments shaped by air and space.
Fillion describes his studio in Pantin, just outside Paris, as a creative sanctuary.
Within this quiet space, his recent fragrance for ARPA STUDIO brings together music and visual art in a singular composition.
As ANEST shapes the body through garments defined by volume, Fillion describes perfumery as an art of sculpting the invisible.
Scent lives in the smallest details. The final expression of a garment also comes together through the layering of many precise decisions.
Each fragrance, whether suspended in the air, settling on skin, or absorbed by fabric, gathers into a dimension where reality and imagination meet.
Fragrance and clothing expand the senses through smell and touch, placing the body within a poetic landscape.
They awaken curiosity, and with it, the desire to listen, to explore, and to shape new forms of inspiration.
These impressions settle inward, leaving subtle and layered traces that surface again within the universe of ANEST.
Photography: François Coquerel
