allegria torassa interview and photography by OLIVIER ZAHM a new collective called g.a.f. [give a fuck] emerged from the fashion scene in paris, pushing the industry to think about the world in a friendlier way OLIVIER ZAHM — Could you tell me about your work in fashion design? ALLEGRIA TORASSA — It’s been more than 12 years. I was doing a bit of everything before I joined Balenciaga. That was my first real design studio. I learned a lot there. Or at least I learned about luxury and research. It was a time of total experimentation for us. We were looking for new techniques, other textures. It was like a fashion laboratory. We might try to find new lacing systems, for instance. We’d lay out an infinity of possibilities to find a solution for each garment, always a different solution. Then I had a serious accident, and I was laid up for a…