Olivier Theyskens

Olivier Theyskens sketches in the quiet before dawn, a habit he picked up sneaking into his mother’s studio as a kid in Brussels. He’s the kind of designer who pins mood boards to his walls and draws straight onto fabric with chalk, then sews the lines into dresses—no pattern, no rules. For the V&A’s 150th birthday, he filled an album with ink drawings that look like ghosts of couture: lace sleeves floating above a Parisian rooftop, the Eiffel Tower bent like a hairpin. Tap his album to see how a single line can carry the weight of a whole silhouette.