The fourth chapter of EENK’s ongoing Letter Project arrived in Paris with a title that demands a second reading. D for Duplicity — but not duplicity as deception. Here, the word is reclaimed as a sartorial truth: two identities occupying a single form, with neither cancelling the other out. Exterior and interior, femininity and masculinity, restraint and expansion — the tension between these opposites is held rather than resolved, and the collection’s interest lives precisely in that unresolved gap.

Designer Hyemee Lee answered the season’s central question — what to present and what to fold inward — through disciplined lines, rich volumes in fluid draping and silhouettes capable of holding two structures simultaneously. Reversible jackets and coats turn inside out to reveal unexpected other selves. Shirts and outerwear shift shape through buttons. A restrained palette of black, beige and ivory takes on accents of vivid red, baby blue and mint. A rose motif — reinterpreted through layering and structural form — moves through the collection as a recurring sculptural presence rather than a decorative one.

The presentation at YOYO at the Palais de Tokyo was designed to be experienced through individual movement and perspective — appropriate for a collection whose meaning shifts depending on where the viewer stands. Choreography created specially for the show featured two dancers embodying the many facets of a single identity, by turns in sync and dissociated, drawing closer and pushing apart — two reflections of the same presence. Music by Studio Ingmar layered electronic textures with sounds captured in the French Alps, evoking nature and city, winter and spring, fragility and promise.

EENK was founded in Seoul in 2013 by Lee, whose background in her father’s printing business gave her a lasting belief in making as a form of inscription — an idea embedded in the brand’s name, a variation on “ink” styled around the recurring E’s in her first and last names. Now presenting its sixth runway collection in Paris and stocked in boutiques including Printemps, the brand is building quietly but deliberately toward what Lee has described as a defining ambition: to establish the first truly global Korean fashion house.