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Ludovic de Saint Sernin
Gestural Lineages
Sensuality as return
FAS–MOD–SER
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Sensuality as return
Ludovic de Saint Sernin
FAS–MOD–SER
Sensuality as return
Index Code:
FAS–MOD–SER
Orgin:
Paris, France / Antwerp, Belgium
Field Notes:
sensuality as return · heritage as gesture · quiet as radical
Defining Moment:
Fall 2023 — Archival codes revived as gesture of intimacy; shadow made sensual again

Ludovic de Saint Sernin

( 
2023
 )
loo-doh-veek duh sahn sehr-nan

De Saint Sernin approached the house as restoration rather than reinvention.

He revived Ann’s vocabulary of black silk, lacing, and exposure, re-centering sensuality within restraint.

The result was brief but symbolic — a return to intimacy and physicality, reminding fashion that quiet can still feel radical.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Ludovic de Saint Sernin’s work, this approach appears where cut and exposure define bodily boundary.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Ludovic de Saint Sernin’s work, this approach appears where cut and exposure define bodily boundary.
Hard Systems
Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.
Systems of Clarity
Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.
Structure
Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.
Proportion
Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.
Gesture
Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.
Fashion
Form is constructed around the body through material, proportion, and movement.
Contemporary
Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.
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Structual Relations
The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

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How are these related?
Quiet Modernism relates practices through how form is organized rather than how it appears. Connections emerge through shared structural conditions — such as repetition, constraint, spatial organization, material behavior, or duration — even when outcomes differ.

A single grouping may reflect multiple overlapping structural concerns.
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