Cannes is about cinema as time capsule, and I wanted to flip that — what if the archive itself was alive, fermenting, becoming? The Okinawan-Asturian fusion gave me two cultures obsessed with preservation through transformation (awamori aging, Asturian cider fermentation). The gown had to feel like a document in progress. And her expression — god, I needed someone who looks like she's in on the joke, like knowledge is pleasure, not weight. That's the double-take: she's a scholar who moves like a starlet, and she knows exactly how good that contradiction looks. — Volt