When we were younger, we used to spend hours in cafés, setting the world to rights. As students, we promised ourselves we would work together in the future, so it came naturally! After a few collaborations, we decided to join our forces and we created an hybrid structure: Maison Nue was born.

Everyone has some special skill and favorite working categories, but the most important is that we manage to set up connections between all those. So, in the end, we try to work together on most projects, when links between us are possible in some way or another.

"Nue" is about something that exists, that is there, nothing less, nothing more. We fight against everything that is superfluous, and we don't want to establish any manners. We are resilient. Nudity and fragility are not for us.

We consider it with a lot of self-mockery. We are a small team and most of all we are young! So, we chose it as a contrast we wanted to play on.

We can always put many images and meanings behind a simple name. Let's say we had fun playing with the two terms ambivalence, and that both represent us very well. First, the house is a welcoming place, a place for gathering. Plus, it became an institutional word in France, and so it immediately sounds and says we are Frenchies. Mixed with this strange term "nue", our house can be a place where anything gets possible. This reveals a lot about the way we work.

Whatever people may say, Paris still keeps its fabulous aesthetic and is a city full of mystery. The creative field in here is very demanding and getting to impose oneself here is a real challenge. Even more if we consider the fact that life here has become very expensive, and that people have to work really hard to make a living there. Anyway, every day we see how young people have not deserted their town, and they keep on coming up with new projects and exciting ideas in every discipline, from music and art to events or even catering. A real new stage is growing, and it is an important factor of what we can call the "new Parisian way of life". It is not obvious, but it is there. However, for the four curious personalities we are, taking a glimpse at other countries is very important. Paris is our home town, and as Woody Allen said about New York: "it ever will be"! But we tend to internationalize our work step by step.

It is true that Paris is no such thing as a giant party board game. The best places to go are those we secretly exchange, and the good events are those you have to be on list to get in. Everything is now pretty secret, but it’s becoming a new sort of game. People have to ride this city, and to be daring because it is worth it in the end. In the end, we do get very good times here.

Independence is something we cannot go without. The studio, label and webzine are Maison Nue's cornerstones. With those, we keep working on our own "trademark". Later on, we might consider creating our own products. But the most important issue for us at that point is to share our creative point of view, discussing, exchanging views, meeting people...

This little catchphrase came from a bad joke and became an animated GIF for our website opening. The formula is not to be taken too seriously; but it summarized our spirit in a very simple and funny way, for a start. After having experienced working for agencies and art directors and having travelled a bit, we realized that if we had something to say or do, we should not wait for someone to give us an opportunity. We felt we had to take it by ourselves, right away. And luckily we live in a world where almost anyone can imagine and start a business. But in fact, being a whole-girls crew was not something we intellectualized, neither something we wanted to play on at first. It just happened to be a DNA mystery that we were four girls who simply wanted to work together. But it is interesting to see how important this issue has become for those who follow us, it's funny to see it matters so much!

With the studio, we recently signed the new Sonia by Sonia Rykiel identity. We just can’t wait to diffuse all this on our website. We also created a new art direction for L'Herne edition's art books; the first publication was released for the Fiac, and is about the Chinese painter Yan-Pei Ming. Our label just launched Mickael Klasson's new EP: Forever EP and we exposed a piece in the Gamut Gallery in Minneapolis, lately. But for now, our main issue is the launching of our new website. Studio, music label and webzine will all take the important place they deserve, so stay tuned!