In 2026, fashion no longer rushes to explain itself ...it lingers.

Marine Serre’s Afternoon in Los Angeles exists in that pause, where time stalls and emotion does the speaking. Act II unfolds like a suspended memory: a mid-century interior, light fractured by blinds, silence heavy with implication. Nothing shouts, yet everything resonates.

Dalton Dubois and Vicki Baids move through the frame as if tethered by something unspoken: intimacy without exposition, tension without resolution. Their connection is elliptical, charged, and deliberately unreadable. The clothes follow suit: sharp tailoring meets softness, structure gives way to vulnerability, and armor dissolves into intimacy.

Styled with precision by Benoit Bethume, Marine Serre’s silhouettes oscillate between control and release, sculptural leather and power shoulders softened by lace, satin, and layered lingerie. The Futura bag appears quietly, almost conspiratorially, a noir object that doesn’t announce itself but knows something you don’t.

Shot by Julia Fullerton-Batton and Vincent Peters (Julia & Vincent), the campaign borrows from cinema yet resists narrative closure. By leading with Act II, Serre privileges atmosphere over order, a reminder that in this new era, fashion is less about chronology and more about emotional residue.