CHROMATIQUE LAB will make its runway debut in Paris this October with SINNER SINNER!, the independent label’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection. Presented with Flying Solo, the show will mark the first time founder and designer Justin Connor will bring the world of CHROMATIQUELAB to the runway.
The presentation follows a two-year period of creative development for Connor, whose last release arrived in 2024. Rather than maintain a conventional seasonal schedule, the designer used the intervening years to sharpen the language of the label and reconsider what CHROMATIQUE LAB could become.
SINNER SINNER! emerges from that period with a more assured proposition. The collection considers the shifting boundaries between propriety and provocation, restraint and exposure, and good taste and its deliberate undoing. Familiar codes of dress are displaced through proportion, material and image, allowing seemingly contradictory ideas to exist within the same wardrobe.
The title itself carries a similar tension.SINNER SINNER!borrows the language of accusation and repeats it until it becomes something more ambiguous—part judgment, part provocation, part joke. Ratherthan defining what constitutes transgression, the collection questions the standards that make the distinction possible in the first place.
For Connor, the collection also represents a shift in scale. Clothing, casting, movement, sound and image will come together for the first time as a single expression of CHROMATIQUE LAB, expanding a practice that has always considered the world surrounding the garment as integral to the garment itself.
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“Taking time away from releasing collections gave me the space to be much more critical about what CHROMATIQUE LAB needed to be,” says Connor. “I became less interested in making things that simply looked good together and more interested in why they belonged together.SINNER SINNER!came out ofthat tension. There are ideas that should contradict each other, but somehow they make more sense when they’re forced into the same space.”
– Justin Connor
