Lusine Mkrtchyan

The Parajanov Street by Lusine Mkrtchyan explores the cycle of influence, inspiration, and intuition, the way external voices gradually become your own. Having grown up beside Sergei Parajanov’s museum in Yerevan, Lusine has always been surrounded by his name and his art; the collection imagines him as a quiet, guiding presence throughout the creative process. Shapes draw from the shells and sculptural forms found throughout Parajanov’s museum and films, while the colour palette is lifted directly from his cinematic scenes: shades of green, navy, gold, chocolate brown, grey, and beige, with faded pink, yellow, and deep purple woven through the prints. Materials were chosen to serve the mood and silhouette of the project, reinforcing its atmospheric, almost devotional quality. The Parajanov Street is a collection about the moment inspiration stops being something you seek and becomes something you simply are.