Anonymous Club by Shayne Oliver Group
The Shaft Boot arrives not as accessory but as argument. From it, the entire January 2026 collection by Shayne Oliver Group®, staged at Headquarters Barbès, Paris 75018, takes its structural cue. The boot is vertical force made physical: a line drawn from ground to body that tells every other element in the collection how to behave.
"Shaft" has the weight of his own design history, the vocabulary he built, the silhouettes people learned to recognise, but it does not rest there. In Paris, that language gets subjected to pressure. The boot becomes a recurring architectural principle, moving through footwear into outerwear, dresses, and accessories, functioning less like a motif and more like a structural law that the collection obeys.
The garments follow with the same logic of controlled undoing. Dresses and formal uniforms, pieces originally made for repetition, for systems, for institutions, are taken back to their component parts. Machine stitching is unpicked. Seams come open. Then, by hand, the material is redraped, reconstructed, returned to the body in a new configuration. What was industrial becomes intimate. What was anonymous becomes considered.
The boot becomes a recurring architectural principle.
This reversal, from mechanical to manual, from mass-produced logic to singular intention, is where the collection finds its emotional register. Structure does not disappear; it becomes the material through which romance is negotiated. The tension between the two is not a problem to resolve but the point itself: the architecture of the everyday, taken apart with care and rebuilt as something that feels, for the first time, chosen.
Oliver gives Paris a collection that instead of performing lightness it earns weight, and from that weight, it pulls something genuinely tender.
Hair by Néné Barry @nb.hands
Make-Up by Naomi Gugler @naomzz
Casting by Julia Lange @julialangecasting
Movement by Ian Isiah @ianisiah
Set Design by Samuel Fasse @samuelfasse_setdesign, Production/PR Radical @radical.pr
Words Donald Gjoka
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