The art of the fold and the echo of silk:

Milan prepares for a moment of contained silence. On 28 February 2026, as part of Milan Fashion Week, designer Ira Langevin will present ORIGAMI Fourteen Fortunes, a collection that transforms the ancestral gesture of Japanese folding into contemporary textile architecture.

 

 

 

 

ORIGAMI is not merely a collection: it is a meditation on form. On how a fold can contain intention, memory and destiny. The silhouettes emerge as pure structures, almost ceremonial. Controlled volumes, precise lines and a narrative that evokes introspection, balance and silent strength.

14 FORTUNES is built around the idea that folded matter — whether
paper or fabric — can become a bridge between the visible and the invisible.

To accompany this proposal, Ira Langevin has chosen jewellery from Silken Code, the collection by Salvatore Plata inspired by the historic Silk Road. A choice that amplifies the cultural discourse of the show and extends it towards other Eastern territories.

If ORIGAMI speaks of Japan and the contained gesture, Silken Code evokes the ancient paths of cultural exchange, where fabrics, metals and artisanal knowledge crossed invisible borders, transforming the language of design through contact between civilisations.

 

 

 

 

 

“For me, ORIGAMI is not a game with paper, but a quiet conversation about destiny. In temples, folded paper separates the sacred from the ordinary. In my dresses, the folds do the same: they outline a space around a woman where she can be honest with herself. ‘14 Fortunes’ are fourteen ways of saying, ‘I am lucky to be myself.”

— IRA LANGEVIN

 

 

 

 

 

 

The selected pieces dialogue with the collection as if conceived in the same invisible stroke. The strategic brilliance of the metal accompanies the purity of the textile structures. Organic forms contrast with the geometry of the fold. The jewel does not invade: it completes. It does not compete: it accentuates.

 

On the runway, each look becomes a balance between matter and symbol. Between emptiness and reflection. Between Japanese stillness and the ornamental richness born from the encounter between cultures.

 

With this choice, Ira Langevin constructs a narrative where fashion and jewellery share the same conceptual root: the contemporary reinterpretation of millenary traditions. A subtle dialogue between distant cultures that find in Milan a point of convergence, amplified by the presence of pieces from Salvatore Plata.

 

 

 

 

After the show, the official images will be available on the digital channels of Salvatore Plata, consolidating a presence born from aesthetic affinity and respect for craftsmanship as a universal language.

Because luxury, in its purest form, is not excess.
It is intention.
It is precision.
It is memory transformed into form.