Emotional Clothing, a fashion of attachment

From June 5 to June 13, 2026, Tata Christiane takes part in Slow Fashion Week Marseille with the collective exhibition Emotional Clothing, Clothing as an Antidote, presented at Atelier Rafale alongside Mercure Soufre Sel and Clémence Veilhan.

This exhibition brings together singular artistic approaches around one shared intuition: clothing can be more than an object to wear. It can become a presence, a memory, a shelter, a fragment of a story. It can accompany, transform and protect. It can become an antidote.

Emotional Clothing is a reflection on the way we consume fashion. It is not a call for restriction or minimalism, but an invitation to rediscover the emotional generosity of clothing.

At Tata Christiane, each piece is conceived as a sensory experience. It cultivates intimate attachment, lasting desire, joyful disruption and a deep relationship with what we wear. The garment does not aim to provoke impulsive consumption. Instead, it seeks to become a presence, a gesture, an inner space.

Here, responsible fashion is not a dogma. It is an affective act. A choice guided by sincerity, duration and feeling.

Clothing becomes a companion. It becomes memory. It becomes an inner territory.

Through Emotional Clothing, Clothing as an Antidote, Tata Christiane proposes to place emotion back at the heart of the act of dressing, moving away from speed in order to recover awareness, intention and time.

Marseille, the South and the birth of the name Tata Christiane

Presenting this project in Marseille carries a particular depth. The city is part of the sensitive matrix of the Tata Christiane label.

Marseille, with its popular energy, circulating fabrics, markets, light, craft traditions and spontaneous creativity, has shaped a way of approaching clothing. It was also in Marseille that Julie instinctively developed her practice of reuse, textile recovery and transformation.

Long before these gestures became visible markers of sustainable fashion, they were already part of her language.

The name Tata Christiane was also born in Marseille, one morning at the La Plaine market, with Gabriel, best friend and cofounder of the label, and his younger sister, who was seven years old at the time. Seeing Julie search through clothes and fabrics, she suddenly said:

Everything you buy looks like something Tata Christiane would wear!

Tata Christiane, the sister of their grandmother, had a flamboyant, eccentric and unique style. The name immediately felt obvious. After all, who does not have a Tata Christiane in their life, a free, inspiring and vibrant woman?

This symbolic lineage connects directly to the Marseille heritage of the label: a heritage of family lines, transmission, women and memories that continue to nourish the work of Tata Christiane.

Chromatic Rituals, color at the heart of emotional clothing

In the work of Tata Christiane, Emotional Clothing begins above all with color.

Color is an intimate language, a direct emotion, an infinite playground. Textile recycling very early confronted the designer with endless chromatic and material variations: found, inherited and reassembled fabrics, carrying histories, shades and unexpected textures.

This diversity is a permanent source of inspiration. It calls for composition, juxtaposition and reinvention.

This sensitivity to color also comes from Marseille, from family, from the vibrant light of the South, from popular markets, mixed fabrics and a spontaneous culture of combination. Color becomes an affective inheritance, a deep anchor.

Through Chromatic Rituals, color becomes an act, a presence, an almost spiritual gesture. It does not simply decorate the garment. It connects, intensifies and accompanies.

Each silhouette is built as a chromatic vibration, an emotional resonance where color becomes experience, sensation and inner territory. Color is therefore the driving force of emotional clothing: a sensory ritual, a way of feeling before possessing.

Reuse, zero waste and transmission

Since the beginning of the label, Tata Christiane’s practice has been based on textile reuse and transformation, limited series, the value of handmade gestures, a sensory and sustainable approach, an economy of care, and the integration of zero waste techniques to minimize or eliminate fabric waste.

Zero waste emerged naturally during the designer’s early years in Marseille: composing with available fabrics, diverting materials, reducing loss and finding precision within constraint.

It is both a creative and ethical gesture. It means allowing form to emerge from what already exists. It means thinking of clothing as a sensitive architecture.

Reuse and transformation are not only ecological acts. They are narrative acts. They extend the life of materials, tell stories of discontinuity and recompose fragments.

Emotional Clothing refuses the speed of disposability and celebrates long duration, memory, transformation, attachment and the power of the creative gesture.

Responsible fashion becomes here a space of reconciliation between emotion and durability, between expressiveness and respect for materials.

Emotional Clothing with Clémence Veilhan

The project Emotional Clothing finds an essential resonance in the collaboration with photographer Clémence Veilhan, a childhood friend met at school in Marseille.

In 2024, Clémence Veilhan invited Tata Christiane to take part in her project around Francisca Garnès, a Minorcan ancestor whose memory she was reconstructing through an intimate, fragmented and poetic narrative.

In her images, Tata Christiane garments become emotional objects, envelopes of memory and supports of transmission. They embody fragmentation, recomposition, intimate migrations and an identity that rebuilds itself.

Tata Christiane’s garments became my armor, my knight’s cape. I wear them during my ceremonies of reunion with the island and with Francisca’s soul.

This dialogue between textile and photography fully embodies the spirit of Emotional Clothing: clothing as living memory, as antidote, as a passage between generations.

Presenting this collaboration in Marseille is a symbolic gesture: a return to origins, a celebration of female lineages and a tribute to silent transmissions.

Exhibition and Pop Up Store at Atelier Rafale

Emotional Clothing, Clothing as an Antidote will be presented from June 5 to June 13, 2026 at Atelier Rafale, as part of Slow Fashion Week Marseille.

The exhibition will take the form of a meeting space between textile, photography, color, memory, performance and sensitive narratives. It will be accompanied by a Pop Up Store, offering visitors the opportunity to discover the world of Tata Christiane and a selection of unique pieces.

On Sunday, June 7, from 2 pm to 8 pm, a convivial gathering will take place over a glass of wine. This moment will be an opportunity to exchange around the project, the artists’ practices and the role of clothing in our personal stories.

Je Porte Encore by Mercure Soufre Sel

On Monday, June 8, 2026, the exhibition will host Je Porte Encore, a proposal by Mercure Soufre Sel exploring clothing as a support for memory, affects and intimate narratives.

Conceived as a sensitive cartography of our relationships to clothing, the project explores what we keep, what we transmit, what we lose, but also what we cannot leave behind or transform. Based on collected testimonies, the installation gives voice and visibility to fragments of personal stories connected to garments: a piece kept as a presence, an inherited textile, a lost garment, an item too charged to be worn, or one impossible to abandon.

These narratives are not presented as linear stories. They appear instead as fragmented matter, crossed by multiple voices, discontinuous memories, sensations and traces. The installation opens a space of listening and projection, where intimate fragments become a sensitive experience for the public.

In resonance with the exhibition Emotional Clothing, Clothing as an Antidote, Je Porte Encore extends the idea of clothing as living memory. The garment is no longer considered only as a textile object or a silhouette. It becomes a point of passage between bodies, absences, family ties, ruptures, inheritances and personal transformations.

The dance performance will activate this emotional cartography through body and movement. The solo by Natacha Nesonson, accompanied by a musical creation by Yanis Fatmi, also known as Reddor Armor, will give physical presence to these fragmented narratives, as if garments, voices and memories were finding an extension through gesture.

The evening will continue with a DJ set by Reddor Armor, extending the experience into a collective sonic atmosphere.

Program for Monday, June 8, 2026
5 pm: Public welcome
5:30 pm: Dance performance, solo by Natacha Nesonson with musical creation by Yanis Fatmi, Reddor Armor
6 pm to 8 pm: DJ set by Reddor Armor

Manifeste Urbain, collective fashion show at FRAC Sud

On Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at 7 pm, Tata Christiane will take part in the collective fashion show Manifeste Urbain, presented at

FRAC Sud, Cité de l’art contemporain
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as part of Slow Fashion Week Marseille. The fashion show will bring together Mamuz, Needless, Kiss Die, Tata Christiane and Atalaya, at 20 boulevard de Dunkerque, 13002 Marseille.

With Manifeste Urbain, Tata Christiane situates its universe within a collective proposal where fashion enters into dialogue with the city, architecture, bodies and urban imaginaries. The fashion show becomes a space of encounter between different clothing languages, different visions of independent creation and different ways of inhabiting garments.

For this show, Tata Christiane will present pieces conceived in the spirit of Emotional Clothing: expressive, colorful and sensitive silhouettes, constructed from available materials, textile fragments and intuitive assemblages. Each passage will become an apparition, a chromatic vibration, a gesture carried by the memory of materials and by the energy of Marseille.

This moment will extend the reflection developed in the exhibition Emotional Clothing, Clothing as an Antidote, giving the garment a living, mobile and collective presence. It will not simply be about presenting clothes, but about sharing an emotion, an attitude, a way of inhabiting color, reuse, transformation and urban space.

Eco fashion corner and creative workshops with Ardelaine

Alongside the exhibition Emotional Clothing, Clothing as an Antidote, Tata Christiane will also participate in the program Slow Fashion Week x Ardelaine, on Thursday, June 11 and Friday, June 12, 2026, at Tiers Lab des Transitions , in the garden located at 15 boulevard Léglize, 13004 Marseille.

This event will take the form of an eco fashion corner bringing together several committed approaches around responsible textiles, transformation, reuse and craft based know how. Alongside Tata Christiane, visitors will be able to discover the worlds of La Patchographie, Ardelaine, Texticologie and Maenad, through stands, creative workshops, activities and moments of exchange.

Tata Christiane will present a selection of hand crochet products, connected to its sensitive approach to clothing, handmade gesture and transmission. On Thursday, June 11, from 10:30 am to 12 pm, the workshop Crochet Custom on Knitwear will invite participants to experiment with textile customization through crochet, in a spirit of creative repair, transformation and attachment to clothing.

Thursday will continue with a slow fashion meet up at 12 pm, followed by a round table on transition professions from 5 pm to 7 pm, bringing together the team of Tiers Lab des Transitions, Ardelaine, La Patchographie and Tata Christiane.

On Friday, June 12, the eco fashion corner will be open from 10 am to 6 pm, with another day dedicated to responsible textile practices, participatory workshops and conversations around a more conscious, local and creative fashion.

This event naturally completes Tata Christiane’s presence in Marseille. After the exhibition, photography, performance and fashion show, the workshops allow visitors to enter into the gesture itself: customizing, transforming, repairing, extending the life of garments and restoring emotional value to materials.

Practical information

Emotional Clothing, Clothing as an Antidote

A collective exhibition by Mercure Soufre Sel, Clémence Veilhan and Tata Christiane

June 5 to June 13, 2026
Atelier Rafale
5 rue Pastoret
13006 Marseille

Sunday, June 7, 2026, 2 pm to 8 pm
Meeting and conversation over a glass of wine

Je Porte Encore

A sensitive cartography of relationships to clothing by Mercure Soufre Sel

Monday, June 8, 2026
5 pm: Public welcome
5:30 pm: Dance performance, solo by Natacha Nesonson with musical creation by Yanis Fatmi, Reddor Armor
6 pm to 8 pm: DJ set by Reddor Armor

Manifeste Urbain

Collective fashion show with Mamuz, Needless, Kiss Die, Tata Christiane and Atalaya

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at 7 pm
FRAC Sud
20 boulevard de Dunkerque
13002 Marseille

Slow Fashion Week x Ardelaine

Eco fashion corner and creative workshops

Thursday, June 11, 2026, 10 am to 10 pm
Eco fashion corner
Tata Christiane workshop, Crochet Custom on Knitwear, from 10:30 am to 12 pm
Slow fashion meet up at 12 pm
Round table on transition professions, from 5 pm to 7 pm

Friday, June 12, 2026, 10 am to 6 pm
Eco fashion corner
Workshops and activities around responsible textiles

Tiers Lab des Transitions
15 boulevard Léglize
13004 Marseille

Café and light food available on site. The venue is accessible to people with reduced mobility.

Useful links

• Official Slow Fashion Week Marseille 2026 program
• Slow Fashion Week Marseille on the Marseille Tourism Office website
• Atelier Rafale, creative venue in Marseille
• FRAC Sud, contemporary art center in Marseille
• Ardelaine, local wool textile cooperative
• Tiers Lab des Transitions in Marseille
• Tata Christiane, expressive upcycled fashion label

Frequently asked questions

When does the Emotional Clothing exhibition take place in Marseille?

The exhibition Emotional Clothing, Clothing as an Antidote takes place from June 5 to June 13, 2026 at Atelier Rafale, 5 rue Pastoret, 13006 Marseille.

What is Je Porte Encore?

Je Porte Encore is a proposal by Mercure Soufre Sel presented on Monday, June 8, 2026. It explores clothing as a support for memory and affects through an installation, a dance performance and a DJ set.

Where does the Manifeste Urbain fashion show take place?

The Manifeste Urbain fashion show takes place on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at 7 pm at FRAC Sud, 20 boulevard de Dunkerque, 13002 Marseille.

Which designers are part of the Manifeste Urbain fashion show?

The fashion show brings together Mamuz, Needless, Kiss Die, Tata Christiane and Atalaya.

When is the Tata Christiane Crochet Custom on Knitwear workshop?

The Tata Christiane Crochet Custom on Knitwear workshop takes place on Thursday, June 11, 2026 from 10:30 am to 12 pm at Tiers Lab des Transitions.

Where does the Slow Fashion Week x Ardelaine program take place?

The Slow Fashion Week x Ardelaine program takes place on June 11 and June 12, 2026 at Tiers Lab des Transitions, 15 boulevard Léglize, 13004 Marseille.

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Tata Christiane takes part in Slow Fashion Week Marseille 2026 with Emotional Clothing, Clothing as an Antidote, a collective exhibition, a Pop Up Store, Je Porte Encore by Mercure Soufre Sel, the collective fashion show Manifeste Urbain at FRAC Sud, as well as an eco fashion corner and creative workshops with Ardelaine around reuse, color and emotional clothing.