Childhood Recollections
We are in Normandy, at my grand-mother’s house. Her house is big and her garden is full of flowers and vegetables. The isolation of the village allows us to spend our days playing on the green lawn, and to stuff ourselves with redcurrant. However after a few days, our child energy gets bored of the village and is eager for new adventures.
Therefore, my parents decide to bring us, my brothers and me, to the Normandy coast. We were used to the Pacific Ocean, with endless beige fine sand. But the Channel seaboard offers a totally different universe. Straight black rocks breaking through the fine sand, full of tiny swarming creatures. Colors and textures were amazing to us. The sea, too cold to swim, was steeped in a beautiful winter sunlight. We could spend hours just looking at hermit crabs and other crustaceans. Bowed back, eyes on the ground, I was filling my yellow raincoat’s pockets with shells of all kinds. When, finally, my parents succeeded in getting me out of my research, and bringing me back home, I emptied my treasure on the table and washed them one by one, to bring them back to Lyon, so far from the sea. This collection is deeply rooted in sustainability.
Indeed, the entire life of the garments, from production to recycling by the way of the usage has been researched to be part of a circular economy. All the collection is made out of linen and cotton, and the leather pieces come from scratches. The knitted pieces are made out of second-hand yarn and beads. All the prints are done with food-waste Shibori dyeing. The leather pieces are designed to be modular. Indeed, it is composed of little modules assembled with piercings. Every piece can be detached and assemble another way. The same modularity is present for the knitted sweater, the crabs’ legs act like buttons that allow to separate and transform the composition of the garment. The blue linen trouser as well as the black leather top are reversible. The black trouser is executed in the most traditional tailoring techniques, from the creation of the custom-made pattern to the hand-sew and manipulation of the fabric.
Credits
Photographer | Ninon Lacroix (landscapes by Laure Julien) |
Models | Rose Cicotti Lea Sylla Raphael Markowicz |
Childhood Recollections
We are in Normandy, at my grand-mother’s house. Her house is big and her garden is full of flowers and vegetables. The isolation of the village allows us to spend our days playing on the green lawn, and to stuff ourselves with redcurrant. However after a few days, our child energy gets bored of the village and is eager for new adventures.
Therefore, my parents decide to bring us, my brothers and me, to the Normandy coast. We were used to the Pacific Ocean, with endless beige fine sand. But the Channel seaboard offers a totally different universe. Straight black rocks breaking through the fine sand, full of tiny swarming creatures. Colors and textures were amazing to us. The sea, too cold to swim, was steeped in a beautiful winter sunlight. We could spend hours just looking at hermit crabs and other crustaceans. Bowed back, eyes on the ground, I was filling my yellow raincoat’s pockets with shells of all kinds. When, finally, my parents succeeded in getting me out of my research, and bringing me back home, I emptied my treasure on the table and washed them one by one, to bring them back to Lyon, so far from the sea. This collection is deeply rooted in sustainability.
Indeed, the entire life of the garments, from production to recycling by the way of the usage has been researched to be part of a circular economy. All the collection is made out of linen and cotton, and the leather pieces come from scratches. The knitted pieces are made out of second-hand yarn and beads. All the prints are done with food-waste Shibori dyeing. The leather pieces are designed to be modular. Indeed, it is composed of little modules assembled with piercings. Every piece can be detached and assemble another way. The same modularity is present for the knitted sweater, the crabs’ legs act like buttons that allow to separate and transform the composition of the garment. The blue linen trouser as well as the black leather top are reversible. The black trouser is executed in the most traditional tailoring techniques, from the creation of the custom-made pattern to the hand-sew and manipulation of the fabric.
Credits
Photographer | Ninon Lacroix (landscapes by Laure Julien) |
Models | Rose Cicotti Lea Sylla Raphael Markowicz |