Haute Couture

The collection was built on a bold union of two visually irreconcilable styles: late-nineteenth-century fashion and the rebellious subcultures of the 1980s. This deliberate collision took form in looks where Victorian corsets in patent leather and voluminous leg-of-mutton sleeves met stirrup trousers and punk headpieces by Stephen Jones.

The palette supplied the tension — soft pastels set sharply against flashes of red and black — while pointed silver ankle boots by Christian Louboutin lent the historical silhouettes a note of daring. The result was a manifesto for a new “aristocracy,” one defined not by inherited titles but by a bold, eccentric character.

For the Ulyana Sergeenko Spring 2016 Couture collection, the House collaborated with the legendary milliner Stephen Jones, who completed several looks with headpieces. His “punk hats” embodied the collection's rebellious spirit and its nod to 1980s subcultures. A hat Jones made for Ulyana Sergeenko in 2016, titled “Queen Aelita in St. Petersburg,” was exhibited at his retrospective at the Palais Galliera fashion museum in Paris in 2025.