In a world obsessed with surfaces and filtered projections, ROMBAUT doesn’t just break character — it dissolves the entire illusion, only to be reborn from its ruins. The SS25 campaign, DYSPHORIA, doesn’t simply showcase structural, futuristic silhouettes. It reveals what lies beneath: a disoriented sense of self, and a raw, almost desperate longing to escape the roles we’re forced to play in this simulation called reality.

Since its inception in 2013, ROMBAUT has merged radical design with humanistic values — championing conscious craftsmanship and 100% vegan materials. But beyond its material choices lies a deeper mission: to create objects that resonate on a psychological level. Loved by those who walk the fringes — artists, rebels, celebrities, and wanderers — the brand offers not just accessories, but an ecosystem of ideas. An act of resistance. A vision for a planet worth saving.

At the heart of it all is Mats Rombaut — the Belgian-born, Paris-based founder and multi-disciplinary alchemist. His creations are steeped in a strange tenderness, drawn from nature, science, architecture, and music. ROMBAUT’s work doesn’t scream — it pulses. It invites you into a confrontation: with yourself, your values, your veiled desires. The iconic heel, reimagined and stripped of artifice, becomes an artifact — not of vanity, but of vulnerability. Of rage. Of release.

This season, the heel returns through the lens of longtime collaborator and sonic insurgent Arca, taking three visceral forms: Office, Bandage, and Thigh High. Each silhouette carries its own tension — austere yet erotic, armored yet exposed — like a second skin built for walking through fire. The campaign also unveils two new accessories that deepen ROMBAUT’s ongoing dialogue between the body and its boundaries: The Shadow Bag, a brutalist soft-armor that folds, melts, and adapts & the YY Bag, a modular ode to Taoist dualities — wearable balance, designed for paradox.