About
Meet the Creator
Since very young I have been surrounded by Fashion:
My grandmother was a hat maker, and my mother was a seamstress. I grew up in France submersed in textiles and fashion “ateliers” (a cutting board, myriad types of scissors, thimbles, 3 or 4 different sewing machines, mannequins, spools, and meters upon metres of fabric…).
After graduating from high school, I went to Paris to study fashion, model design and manufacturing: Centre de formation de Modelisme (CFM) de Paris (1982-1984).
Directly after this I attended a school to study costume design (Paris – 1 year), and this led me to assume a position as head Costume Designer at Club Med for 2 years from 1985 to 1987. I Worked in Europe and Mexico during this period before returning to Paris in 1988 where I was hired as Chef D’Atelier at Ledel Design (1988 -1989) responsible for a line of women Trench coats and outdoor apparel.
In 1989 I moved to Canada where I started out first in High End Fashion Canadian designers, working for Loukas KLEANTHOUS and then for ZAPATA (owned and run by the spouse of Geddy Lee from RUSH).
But I quickly transitioned to become a designer and pattern maker for ROOTS Canada reporting directly to Michael Budman and Don Green for leather goods, Coats and the Continental sportswear women line. I held this job for 3 years before moving back to France in 1994.