Samsøe Samsøe is proud to announce an intimate and curated three-way collaboration and immersive experience with Paris-based creatives and partners Garance Vallée and Franck Pellegrino. The project brings together two distinct creative voices spanning across design, art direction, architecture and spatial practice through a shared exploration of material and gesture.
At its core, the collaboration is an exercise in translation taking Vallée and Pellegrino’s respective creative sensibilities and allowing them to inform, interrupt and reshape Samsøe Samsøe denim offering. The collection features unique, entirely handmade denim pieces, alongside two limited-edition creations: a leather jacket and a long-sleeve T-shirt produced in a limited run. Each denim piece in the capsule has been redesigned and reconstructed by hand, the results existing entirely outside the conventional product cycle, grounded in the brand’s denim DNA yet reinterpreted through Pellegrino’s architectural eye and construction practice. Nothing is produced at scale, and nothing repeats.
Vallée will design the interior of the pop-up space in its entirety, creating a contemporary environment built to house and activate Pellegrino’s textile collection. Brushed metal and glossy vinyl become sculptural elements, and the room itself becomes part of the work, an extension of the same impulse: somewhere to linger, examine, and step inside a world rather than simply browse it.
Pellegrino’s textile practice is inspired by the visual codes of denim culture from the 1990s and early 2000s which is projected into Vallée’s distinctly contemporary spatial universe, with stencil work, typography, patchwork and spray painting sit alongside brushed metal and glossy vinyl and industrial references in quiet dialogue with the tactile richness of each handmade denim piece.
“This collaboration is about the meeting point between gesture and material, where Franck’s handcraft and my spatial thinking become one language. Through Samsøe Samsøe denim, we’ve built and environment that moves between fashion, art and interior design. It is an immersive journey into blue” – Garance Vallée and Franck Pellegrino
To mark the opening of the space, Vallée, Pellegrino and Samsøe Samsøe co-hosted a community gathering for friends, collaborators and the broader creative community during PFW. The evening was a celebration of the project’s spirit as much as its output: built on relationships, shaped by conversation.
