This project reimagines SYSTEM's FW26 collection through the lens of displacement — as seen by Korean photographers based in France, observing the brand from the perspective of an outsider within a foreign landscape.

Haeun Kim is a Paris-based photographer. Rooted in self-exploration, her work documents the shifting emotions and inner movements that arise in unfamiliar environments. She observes nature closely, looking for the points where the forms, light, and textures she finds there meet personal emotion. Through them, she explores the relationship between herself and the world around her.

"What mattered most to me in this shoot was the state of 'not fully belonging anywhere.'"
— Haeun Kim

The lookbook was shot with garments alone, without models, so Kim approached each piece of clothing as a presence in its own right. She removed each garment from where it would normally belong and placed it between natural and artificial settings. The aim was for the clothes to carry a story of their own, even without a model.

Ahead of the shoot, Kim settled on three keywords: "boundary," "harmony and contrast," and "unfamiliarity." Some garments were placed so that they blend into the trees and grass, while items with distinct color and form, such as the red trousers and shoes, were set to stand out against the landscape.

"I wanted to capture an ambiguous sensation: something that seems to have always belonged there, yet feels slightly unfamiliar on closer look."
— Haeun Kim

A further source of inspiration was SYSTEM 26FW "Nowhere Neat." What first caught Kim's attention in the collection's description was the image of a figure who is well put together yet slightly out of step, never fully belonging to one place.

"Having lived between Korea and France, I have often felt something similar."
— Haeun Kim

That shared sensation is where the collection's story and her own work meet.

In choosing locations, Kim sought out places where nature and human-made environments appear together, rather than purely natural settings. She hung or placed the garments where different elements meet, such as forest and road, trees and fences, or plants and concrete, building a relationship between the clothes and their surroundings. Alongside shots that show each garment in full, she also photographed details up close: buttons, fabrics, and patterns.

This closeness reflects how she approaches her work in general.

"I am less interested in viewing a landscape as a whole from a distance than in moving closer, discovering new forms and light along the way."
— Haeun Kim

For this series, she applied the same way of seeing to the clothes.

This approach extends to her choice of medium. Film and digital each played a different role. With film, she embraced the unpredictable shifts in light, color, and grain as part of the image. With digital, she adjusted color and tonality so that the atmosphere felt at the time of shooting would remain in the image. Through the contrast between the two, the series brings the sensations of familiarity and unfamiliarity, nature and artifice, belonging and not belonging into a single body of work.