Describe the L’Ecole des Femmes woman!
She is a seductress, elegant yet dangerous. She has courage, a sense of humor and adventure. I love her.
When designing, what aesthetic references to you play on?
I have many actually. Everything I ever want to experience in life or am curious about aesthetically, I want to experiment with. If I want to feel like Serge Gainsbourg’s suave for a day, I’ll create a look that evokes that. But then sometimes I want to be the love interest in a movie I saw as a child that I don’t know the name of but that made me feel something. I like roleplay, I like personalities, characters, uniforms and clean lines.
Your clothes manage to be both cheekily sexy and quite classic. How do you balance both?
I don’t actively do anything, I just give myself the freedom to do whatever I like and it comes out that way I suppose.
For you, is seduction a form of empowerment?
Seduction is a power. It is a choice. Seduction should be natural however, and the clothes we wear help us seduce greatly. They are a powerful form of expression, they aren’t just clothes. There is a history going on in each item as everything has already been done and I am not inventing anything. There is a fabric, a color, a print, a fit, a cut… All of those are dramatically important and tied to seduction. As with our hairstyles, facial expressions, mannerisms and the words and voice we choose, they are all expression.
All clothes, L’Ecole des Femmes
What’s your backstory?
Ah man, don’t ask me that! I’m from Paris and LA and grew up between the two and own a clothing line that I like to call indie. I don’t agree with current fashion conventions and just make up my own as I go along.
What’s it like, being a Parisian in Los Angeles?
To be anything from anywhere in Los Angeles is honestly like being a ghost. I don’t exist there, I just do my thing and never walk with anyone or connect with anyone or meet anyone. Paris is the opposite, so it’s really hard to be happy in Los Angeles socially for me.
The one item in your closet you can’t live without?
My trench coat.
You’ve got an important social media following and are quite active on Instagram. How do you think that impacted you as a brand?
Hugely. Instagram is powerful and amazing and it has helped me reach so many people. I am so thankful. It is thanks to Instagram that my business thrives! Instagram is the biggest microphone in the world right now and I aim to say and scream everything I need to!!
