STORYTELLING

“My work doesn’t dress, it transforms what remembers being human” - Jeanette Pham

Her work doesn’t dress, it awakens what remembers being human. Each garment holds a quiet archive of gestures, echoes, and fleeting traces of bodies in motion. Step inside, and seams stir, threads shiver, and the familiar dissolves into something uncanny. Shapes breathe, fold, and unravel, carrying the wearer into a space where identity drifts, and the line between self and other fades. This is not fashion. It is a passage, a whisper from a world that remembers what it meant to be alive and invites one to become again.

THE MAISON OF JANIEJEAN/BACKGROUND

Jeanette Pham is a fashion designer based in Berlin. Her work moves between fashion, art, and narrative, exploring how garments can tell stories that feel slightly strange, yet deeply human. Each piece invites the wearer to step out of the ordinary and into a world that shifts between reality and imagination.

She is drawn to the tension between beauty and distortion, a feeling of warmth and discomfort. Her designs often take inspiration from costume and performance, treating clothing as a medium for transformation a second skin that both conceals and reveals.

Experimentation with materials lies at the heart of her process. She explores contrasts of texture and structure, working with self-made latex, reworked leather, and manipulated textiles to blur the line between the wearable and the sculptural. Each material carries its own memory and voice, shaping garments that move, shift, and transform with the body.

At the core of her work is an interest in metamorphosis how something odd or imperfect can become poetic, and how transformation itself can tell a story.