I’ve always wanted to pursue a career in fashion. However, I don’t come from an artistic background nor crowd at all, and I was a bit nervous to step into this unknown industry. Also, the fact that I graduated at a quite young age from high school allowed me some time to experience different fields. I wanted to be completely sure before doing it and giving 100% of myself to this.

It’s going very fast! I’m happy with the evolution of the brand so far. Knitting and tailoring are becoming more and more important. I receive good and useful feedback from our stockists and clients, which helps a lot to make the collections more precise and accurate each season. The show is also a good way of expressing what I want to do.

Paris is very dynamic right now, especially the menswear scene. I’ve always wanted to work for other fashion brands before funding my own, as my aim was to learn more about the process, production, the impact of the press, etc. As a company, we have to deal with so many things now, but I try to keep the design as the most important part, doing my best to not get suffocated by all the other many sides of the industry. First and foremost, my focus is on the people who will wear the clothes.

I keep an eye but not too much. I think it’s already difficult to keep your own vision and direction.

I want to go back to the product as much as possible without having too much impressive effect. Technologic innovation with an eye to sustainability is also something that I want to develop more. I’m doing it already, working with old fabrics stock or transforming vintage stuff, but I’m not necessarily communicating it. I think for our generation it’s completely normal to think this way, and the industry is finally also paying attention to it. Customers are also much more educated and sensitive to this matter and I think this is very good for the industry overall.

I would like to represent people that want to be elegant and have a flair for details. I like the fact that my collections are quite ‘large’ and that you can do whatever you want with all the clothes, playing around a bit and transforming them as you want.

Half of our customers are females! Even if I say that the brand is gender fluid, I’m conceiving everything measured on men – in terms of fabrics and patterns. I think it’s important but not necessarily determinant. People do what they want, and I like to see how the outcome can be completely different from what I was thinking in the first place.

I got used to reading a lot since I was very young. It’s always been an important ritual for me, an essential part of my creative process. I try to read every day, and I think it’s crucial to save some time outside of the fashion world! When I’m reading, it’s like a movie going on in my head: it provides a personal point of start for every collection.
Every book reminds me of a period of my life; I love to read them again at a different age because you have a completely different point of view on it. Furthermore, it gives a structure to the brand. I would like the text to have more impact than images, even if it’s very difficult to not being ‘first degree’. I try to develop this aspect more and more every collection.

Ancient Evenings, by Normal Miller, is one of the first books I read from the American writer. I was very impressed by it as I was totally obsessed with mythology at that time. I would spend all of my free time at the Louvre museum in Paris. It was also fascinating to me that it started with facts that took place twenty thousand years ago but that still sound very contemporary in the search of spirituality and sense in your life.

I think so. Maybe I don’t realize it but we are in a quite dark period where people are looking for meaning in their lives. I’d love to think that there’s something after life, even if it’s a very romantic idea for me. We have so much to do now already.

It’s of major importance. I’m drawing every look at the beginning of the collections. After this first phase, it’s mostly fitting, fitting, fitting. I’m not working a lot on a stockman, as it may be the way I’m working patterns flat.

It’s funny because I designed the collection months before the movements started in Paris! So even if it’s completely out of point, I think it was in the air. I thought about it a lot before including them because I was afraid that the audience would link them up with the gilet jaunes. The collection is based on workwear, and this is some kind of graphic design I’ve done before.

The next Spring/Summer 2020 collection, which will be presented in June at the next Paris Fashion Week.