The symbol comes from the butterfly, the maison’s first emblem and an image of metamorphosis. As one form gives way to another, the lightness of the wings becomes geometry, movement takes on structure and transformation becomes a language. The star does not replace the butterfly: it represents its natural evolution, the moment when an idea finds a form that can endure.
Its five points correspond to the five chapters of the creative pentalogy: Illusion, Awaken, Connection, Intuition and The Fifth Element. From the outset, the five clothing collections were conceived as parts of a single story, each with its own landscape of materials, colours, volumes and inspirations.
Illusion begins at the shifting boundary between appearance and reality. Awaken introduces a sense of awakening, the perception of something beyond the surface. Connection turns towards our bond with nature, the universe and our deepest selves. Intuition and The Fifth Element will carry this journey forward into new territories. Each collection opens up a fresh perspective, leaving something for the next to take up, develop and transform.
This is where the star takes on its fullest meaning. Its points extend in different directions, yet belong to the same figure. In the same way, the five collections can stand alone and retain their own identity, while, read together, they reveal the continuity of an idea taking shape season after season.
The aim is not to repeat a code, but to let it evolve. Materials, silhouettes and atmospheres change; a common impulse remains, binding together the different moments of the pentalogy and making it possible to recognise the same vision behind each one.
The star thus becomes both a form of memory and a possibility. It preserves its origins in the butterfly, holds within it the project’s five stages and leaves the way open to what is yet to come. It is a symbol that looks both back and forward, holding transformation and continuity together without fixing them in a static image.
The boomerang is also inscribed at the heart of the star. Its meaning belongs to another chapter in the Albena Gateva language, expressed in the words To Give Is To Have. If the butterfly tells the story of change and the star gives it form, the boomerang sets in motion a movement towards others, opening the symbol to reciprocity.
