Filling Pieces Debuts Barneys Collection with Majid Jordan
Guillame Philibert, founder and creative director of Filling Pieces, was an architecture student at 16 and a founder of a luxury footwear brand by 19. His sneakers have since reached the Hadids and Chris Brown, along with collaborations with MR PORTER and Puma. But Philibert has a vision that extends beyond sneakers as he launches the brand's first ready-to-wear colllection with Barneys New York. For his debut outside footwear, the young designer brought back his passion for architecture. "The collection is based on a personal moment I had when I came to New York for the first time, I was 16 at that age, and I was already studying architecture," said Philibert. He drew inspiration from his trip to Guggenheim in New York and paid homage to the museum's legendary architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. "The Guggenheim was built under the design ideology called 'form follows function.' An ideology where the function of the building or piece is actually more important than the aesthetic."
