I
didn't go to fashion school. I've been against formal education ever
since I discovered Santa Claus isn't real, so everything I learned about
fashion growing up, came from
reading magazines and looking at photos.
I remember watching this beautiful movie, Falbalas
from French director Jacques Becker, showing the life of a couturier in
the 1940's and the production of a fashion show, when I was 12 years
old. The show had movement, it had life, and it had theater and it
really captured my imagination. I've been fascinated by designers who
evoke drama ever since.
For that
reason, I'm very proud to be from France, which has given the world so
many pioneering designers. While I don't believe there's anything innate
about the French and style, it's impossible to deny that contemporary
fashion's roots are in this country. From the beginning, France -- and
Paris in particular -- has been the capital and heart of fashion, with a
long list of innovators who changed the way we looked at clothes, the
body and even ourselves.
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