As far as I can remember, I’ve always had a thing for fashion. But the critical point was my first encounter with the street culture of Japan on the Internet in 2004 through the discovery of Nigo from A Bathing Ape. This really changed everything for me and really triggered my interest to turn it into a passion.

Yes, the first garment we sold was a mirror reflective snakeskin embossed leather jacket. We sold it on the Internet the first day we launched the brand online.

I think playing within the balance between art and commerce.

‘Paradis’ represents that ideal of happiness that most humans seek for. Everybody wants to go to paradise. One of my goals is to promote unity; I design clothes for everybody and talk about subjects that are universal for every human being.

I feel like I consciously choose the themes of my collection based on questions that I’m asking myself at the moment of starting the collection or based on a subject and dialogue that I would like to open with people or raise awareness on.

Yes, I feel like most of my creations have meanings; it is essential that substance and form come together.

My references mostly come from various sets of knowledge and my various daily researches. I also take a lot of inspiration from life experiences that happened to myself or to people that I know. It goes from emotions to philosophy, literature, movies, fine art, sub-culture and many more.

My best friend used to have a house in Cala Vinyes. During his childhood, he used to spend all his summers there until, not long ago, his family sold the house. He’s been very nostalgic about these moments in Palma de Mallorca and talks to me about his time spent in Cala Vinyes multiple times a week. While telling me his stories, I noticed a mix of sadness and happiness in him due to the fact that these happy moments were gone and will never come back. I also noticed that these nostalgic moments and stories tend to destroy the present in order to glorify and idealize the past. I decided to use the imagery of Cala Vinyes to represent that feeling of nostalgia or the joy of being sad.

For years, I collected in a box plenty of leftover foreign currencies from my numerous travels around the world. While going over the multiple bank notes, I realized that each of them made me reminisce about different particular moments spent in those individual countries. Entirely hand-stitched with real money, each bill tells a story and represents a specific memory from each one of my multiple trips. This also triggers my exploration on the subject of nostalgia.

It is a very interesting question. I feel like time is not something you can take; it only ephemerally belongs to you. I think I accepted that time keeps coming, never comes back and will inevitably lead us to a certain death. Therefore, I have a very interesting relationship with time. I am very conscious that time is not promised and that everything could be taken away in a blink of an eye. I feel like we are shaped by the quality of time we spend and are defined by the key moments of our life. All this made me fully appreciate every fragment of life and highly cherish the moments and people around me.

I translated the idea of nostalgia by paying tribute to the past in the form of destruction of the present, and by expressing my views on the concept of nostalgia as a reminder of the slow tragic dimension of human life; time passing by and not coming back. This collection is layered with references, double entendre and symbols; it is a poetic marriage of fabrics, finishes and details heavily influenced by the idea of mixing the sweetness and the pain of memories, overlaying images and a confrontation between existence and inexistence.

These contrasts arise from the juxtaposition of the sweetness and pain of the nostalgic memory.

I feel like textures bring feelings and emotions into people. Mixing different textures helps me to translate those different emotions to express my views on different themes and tell various stories throughout my collections.

We took the decision to work at our own pace and let the consumer adapt to our world and environment. This is, for now, our only way to make honest and quality work.

My greatest achievement so far would be the art exhibition we are curating in Houston (United States) next summer. We will present the sculptural furniture series that I created in collaboration with multidisciplinary artist Joyce Lin. Merging into fine art was a big stepping-stone and brings me a lot of joy. I’m very grateful to my parents for the unconditional support and encouragement they gave me since the inception of 3.Paradis.

I just finalized an art project of a series of sculptural furniture that will be exhibited in Houston, Texas, this upcoming summer. Also, been working on a jewelry project with my dear friend and Navajo jeweler Cody Sanderson. In the future, I would love to work with photographer Nick Knight.