Alëna Popova
Fashion designer and stylist · Paris
I finished a fashion design degree at IFA Paris this summer — stylisme and modélisme, which in practice means I can draw a thing and then cut it. Before that, a foundation year in art direction.
I've worked on shoe design at VEJA, on knitwear and jersey at Sézane, and as a styling assistant at DIDU: patterns, fittings, moodboards, shoots. Most weeks I'm also on the floor of an archive boutique in the Haut Marais, which is where you learn what a good piece looks like, because a hundred of them go through your hands in a week.
Now I dress people in clothes that already exist — and make the piece when it doesn't.
- Now
- Secondhand styling and made-to-measure — Paris and remote The Parisian Vintage — archive boutique, Haut Marais
- Education
- Bachelor, Fashion Design & Technology — IFA Paris 2023–2026 Foundation, Art Direction — British Higher School of Art and Design 2022–2023
- Experience
- VEJA — shoe design Sézane — knitwear and jersey, technical DIDU — styling and studio
- Selected work
- Les Ombres Errantes — graduate collection, 2026 Creative book — nine projects, 2023–2026
- Tools
- Lectra · Clo3D / VStitcher · Blender · Photoshop · Illustrator · InDesign
- Languages
- Russian · French · English