What are the central themes that have guided this Spring-Summer 2025 collection?
There's a city theme and a country theme, but the clothes can be used in both themes and can be mixed and matched.
Each season tells a story, an emotion, a vision: what do you want to convey this year?
After a harsh winter and the sometimes worrying news, a great desire for joie de vivre, lightness and carefreeness. Clothes for parties, weddings, the sun, holidays, but also a happy everyday life.
What factors influence your designs? The places you like to travel to, the people you meet, the things you read, your artistic emotions?
I draw my inspiration from everything that surrounds me: exhibitions, films, reading, travel, but above all from everyday situations. I create the clothes I need to suit the circumstances. Choosing a fabric is almost magical: I can already see the ideal fit. Jane Birkin is the perfect embodiment of this stylistic freedom, combining freshness, sophistication, rock, romance and sobriety across the decades. I just love her!
What materials or textures would you like to highlight this season?
After the layering of winter, the warm and sometimes heavy clothes, all I want is lightness! Not to feel cramped, awkward or tight... Cotton, fine wools and linen are perfect for this. When the materials are of good quality, they age well and look beautiful, even crumpled, like us! (laughs)
Fashion is constantly evolving. What exciting challenges do you see for 2025?
Fashion evolves with our desires and the images that influence us, and that's a good thing! As Lampedusa said in Le Guépard: "Everything has to change for nothing to change"
Rather than fighting, we need to adapt. Today's cuts are looser, and I try to incorporate them without making women feel lost. I also like each piece in a collection to be easy to mix and match, without needing a fashion degree!
Your style often reflects a dialogue with art or culture: who inspires you today?
You have to stay curious, soak up everything, then forget to refine.
Over time, the more I accumulate, the more I seek simplicity. Choosing, eliminating and going for the essential is a difficult but essential exercise. Fashion is a paradox between eccentricity and the quest for timeless beauty... a real neurosis!
Do new generations influence your designs?
I love the stylistic freedom of the new generation: wearing what you like without looking for strict consistency. In the past, clothes were combined according to style, but today this spontaneous mix breaks down preconceptions. I love the boldness of mixing sport and sophistication, twisting codes, playing with vintage not out of constraint but out of passion. What seemed kitsch yesterday becomes seductive today. Fashion is about accepting surprises, and sometimes even changing your mind!
How is sustainability shaping this PE25 collection?
I'm not trying to do green washing: when it's good quality and beautiful, we keep what we buy for a long time, we give it away, our daughters wear it, it stays, it's good for the planet. Less is more.
How would you like people to feel when they wear your creations?
I want my customers to feel so good in my clothes that they forget about them once they're out. That feeling of being a bit of someone else and a bit of yourself at the same time. I love it when a jacket makes you want to buy it in several colours, when a pair of trousers like the Charlotte goes through the seasons without changing, because it suits so many women. Elegance isn't about hoarding, it's about having the right pieces, the ones you really wear.
Finally, which pieces from your previous collections would you like to reinvent or adapt?
I keep pieces from past collections, like satin or faille parkas, because I know they'll always be useful for occasions when you want to be dressed up without a long dress. I love navy blue jumpers, round collars, velvet, pea coats, bridge trousers... every designer has their own obsessions. A good garment crosses generations, and a good jacket is like a friend, ready to save you. The joy of finding something you want to wear straight away, or learning that a customer has kept my designs for 10 years, is a real source of pride. My customers and I have the same taste, like virtual girlfriends. Clothes can really make every day as enjoyable as a holiday, and the idea of creating pieces that you forget you're wearing is a dream.
