Duchatel meets the creators

During her event with different creators such as Rabih Kayrouz, Alexandra Senes, Lyne Fromiga, Nicolas Oucheir, Alice Balas, Duchatel took the opportunity to interview each of them.

Meeting with Lyne Fromiga

GOOD MORNING Lyne, D ' OR Draw YOU YOUR INSPIRATION ?

I am inspired by artists such as Picasso, Cocteau which I have admired for many years. But I am also passionate about Japan. When I returned from my first trip to Japan, I started creating Japanese drawings. They translate into pure curves echoing both in Biarritz as well as the Basque coast. Today, my most famous drawing is 10 years old! It’s that of the "Basque face".

At the start, the curves of this face were more rounded and some time later my husband suggested that I give him a more "art deco" touch. It was from that moment that I decided to refine this face in a more geometric way.

The second drawing in this universe is that of bathers.

I made the bathers exclusively with Fabrice (artistic director of Duchatel). It is through this collaboration with Duchatel that this drawing marked year 30, both inspired by Cocteau and Basque faces that the bathers have emerged.

Finally, there is "the red mouths" This drawing comes straight out of my imagination! The inspiration of "red mouths" came to me on the return from a trip to Japan. Like this Eastern Asian country, I find them both modern and ancestral. These red mouths are also a tribute to the famous "geishas" with their porcelain complexion and their blood.

That EAST- THIS WHO YOU HAS GIVEN ENVY OF DO THIS JOB ?

It comes from my grandparents without any hesitation! My grandmother was a painter and my grandfather. In our family, we are very artists! As far as I'm concerned, I am self -taught, I have not done a school or never took lessons except for a few technical lessons for porcelain.

Lyne Fromiga for Duchatel

WHAT EAST YOUR COURSE IN A FEW WORDS ?

My journey is very special ... I first started paint on wood for object marks, decoration for children. Then I went from wood to glass for goldsmiths to finally paint on porcelain. I found porcelain the little one, something that I do not find on the other supports on which I have been able to paint before. Painting porcelain is more like a canvas, a work of art and I find that it puts more painting forward.

One of my first great achievements that played a preponderant role in my artist career is a collaboration with the Grand Hotel Maria Cristina in Saint Sebastian in Spain. It was thanks to the star chef, Hélène Darroze who ordered me a whole service of plates for her restaurant. In a certain sense, this collaboration allowed me to make myself known and offered me visibility. I also collaborated with her for her second restaurant in Paris called "Joi".

When I create my plates, I do not think of the primary use of the object which consists in serving to contain food or as table service. I create my plate by seeing it exposed like a canvas, I move away more and more functional to tend towards the work of art

That EAST- THIS THAT YOU INSPIRED THERE CITY OF Biarritz?

This city is a wind of freedom through its landscapes, the ocean, as well as for its smells like iodine. Biarritz also emanates an artistic atmosphere Picasso, Cocteau or the Art Deco movement.

What ARE THE THINGS OF DAILY WHO YOU Make HAPPY ?

I believe that the moments when I feel this fullness of happiness are when I find myself in my workshop, in my bubble. But there is no equal to the happiness I feel when I am with the people I love my family, my loved ones, my friends and my dogs. I find that there is nothing more pleasant than to feel and send positive waves to people who love you.

Collaboration Lyne Fromiga X Nicolas Ouchetir For Duchatel.

"I find that there is nothing more pleasant than feeling and sending positive waves to people who love you."

Behind the scene ...

Duchatel & Kilometre go to the table with their friends ....

L’EVENEMENT

As part of her "kilometer round" Alexandra Senes and Duchatel brought together various creators such as Couturier Rhabi Kayrouz, Calligraph Nicolas Oucheir, designer Alice Balas or the artist Lyne Fromiga.

Saturday, June 12, gathered at Duchatel all the creators. During this day, they were able to present their collaborations to us which allowed them to make their different universes dialogue in order to pool their love for art and fashion with the aim of creating unique and timeless pieces

Exclusive collaboration

Nicolas Hook X Lyne Cheese For Duchatel

Lyne Fromiga is an artist-painter on porcelain. We recognize his work through his clean and timeless lines through the Black And white predominate his works and these touches of colors that joyfully combine his creations as by surprise.

Between porcelain, painting AND CALLIGRAPHY…

Lyne to collaborate with the Calligraph Nicolas Ouchetir to create plates, vases, dishes with refined drawings and poetic messages. The writing of Nicolas Oucherien comes to land delicately on the monologue of lines and colors painted by Lyne Fromiga. The words chosen by Nicolas Ouchetir inspire journey, love, poetry and more than ever life. The plates are hand painted by Lyne Fromiga and calligraphied by Nicolas Oucherien. These works are in limited and numbered edition, so they are unique.

Collaboration Nicolas Hook X Alexandra Senes

Alexandra Senes, the designer whose simple stories are an incentive to travel and sharing, but also and above all the director of the Mailometer Paris brand. The brand offers hand -embroidered collections by Mexican or even Indian craftsmen. Each of its parts is unique, inspired by a place, a memory or an excursion. Nicolas to Oucper the solar and talented calligrapher to collaborate with the designer Alexandra Senes. The fruit of this collaboration is a white linen shirt, from old chined sheets signed Kilometer Paris entirely embroidered by hand from drawings made by Nicolas Oucherien.

Kilometers in Tangier ...

Like a written poem Black On white, this white linen shirt is anchored with history. This time, it is not the delicate pen of Nicolas Oucherien who illustrates a work, but embroidery made in collaboration with the Milometre brand.

These embroidery transcribes memories echoing the immutable memories that Nicolas Oucherien maintains for Tangier. The destination of Tangier is a particular choice, because Nicolas has been going back and forth since his childhood. For him, she is the city of all poets, an inspiring city that is both violent feverish.

We find his grandfather in Gelaba, the market square, camels walking on Briech beach that separates the ocean from the Mediterranean. Ink stains in his business passion. A portrait of her grandmother with her piercing gaze of Kabyle Berber, Baigneurs in Burka on the family beach in Briech or a tribute to a "galloping" woman dancing barefoot on the beach.

Collaboration kilometer Paris x Alice Balas

Creator, riddle, but above all entrepreneur Alice Balas has been able to create a cozy place in the fashion world. With its eponymous brand Alice Balas, offers a new and elegant vision of the perfecto. She imagines it in a multitude of finest leathers in unique shades of colors and is shaped in her Parisian workshop.

The perfecto

The fruit of this collaboration is a perfecto made with the Mailometre Paris brand. Two entrepreneurous women with different universes pool their knowledge for a unique leather perfecto embroidered with history. This little, dreamy perfecto is fully embroidered on the back of a real postcard landscape. We can see Alice and Alexandra "in mode" biller both at Califourchon on the meMe MOTO, a sign signed A&C taking up their initials registered on a mountainous road in Los Angeles or the ocean ...

ENCOUNTER WITH THE CREATOR Rabih Kayrouz

Of Paris in Beirut

Born in Lebanon Rabih arrived in France at the age of 16 to study in Paris, diploma of the Haute Couture union chamber in 1994, Rabih Kayrouz carried out his early internships at Dior or Chanel. Captivated by the soul of his country under reconstruction, he decided to return to Lebanon to create wedding dresses first for his friends and then expands his production for new customers. In 1998, he founded the Rabih Kayrouz house or for ten years, he offered unique pieces reserved for women. It was in 2009 that he returned to Paris and set up his 38 boulevard Raspail workshop. For the anecdote this address was 50 years older the "little theater of Babylon".

"I am rich, immeasurably rich in what is lacking in almost everyone: the time."

Luxury according to Rabih

His definition of luxury is a quote from Philippe Delerm, she deeply makes him: "I am rich, immeasurably rich in what is lacking in almost everyone: time. ». Sharing his time between Paris and Beirut He plans his fashion as "a bridge between these two cultures" .Rhabih likes more clothes than fashion in itself. He mixes the oriental clothing and the way in which he envelops the body like the abayas, the caftans, the Arab tunics and their ways of resting on the shoulders. "We also find the western clothing more Parisian which is more cut on the body and not only on the shoulder. His style is illustrated this contrast.

Architecture, sewing and creation

A real clothing architect, Rabih Kayrouz builds clothes directly on a fixed model. The choice of fabric plays a fundamental role in the design of clothing. It is notably thanks to its fall and its movement that the clothes takes shape according to the curves of the silhouette. This is why we recognize the work of Rabih Kayrouz, when the fabric is almost enough for him-Meme. His style is not in "simplicity" but he is in "the sink" with a constant approach to detail.

When you observe a room by Rabih Kayrouz whether it is during a parade where you can observe the clothing in motion, coming to play with the curves of the models ..., or more simply on a fixed mannequin where we admire the work, the construction game of the creator falling almost from origami, architecture. We are wondering where his passion comes from? ... What are his sources of inspiration? ... During his Duchatel event invited the designer Rabih Kayrouz to sit at Gaztelur. Unfortunately, the creator could not join us, but it is with great generosity that Rabih Kayrouz to accept to answer our questions.

From where Do you draw your inspiration ?

Women inspire me first after all I make these clothes to them to seduce them. And then nature fascinates the clouds with the light the trees I find forms of the silhouette of the constructions. Today inspiration comes from what I call the "first gesture". I like to create clothes that stand, starting the clothes directly by placing the fabric on the body. I do not make drawings, hence my "architectural" style; I perceive my clothes like constructions, made to be worn.

What made you want to do this job?

The love of clothes, I always knew that I wanted to be a designer. At the age of 12, I was asked what I would like to do and, without hesitation, I replied: "Stylist-modernist".

What makes me want is know-how. For me, sewing is not a "lifestyle" but a know-how. This is the difference that makes me want to exercise this profession. I create by passion, by instinct, for my women and not for the "show".

What is your background in a few words?

After spending my childhood in the Lebanese mountains and taking courses in a French school, I left for Paris where I entered the School of the Parisian Couture Syndicale. Then I did internships in large houses (Chanel, Dior ...). In 1995, I took part in an exhibition, the Salon des Artistes Décorators, in Lebanon. It was the first time I discovered Beirut and I decided to stay there, in order to participate in the reconstruction of my country and I install my own haute couture house.

I started by creating wedding dresses for rather demanding customers. It lasted 10 years. After which, I returned to Paris to launch the ready to wear.

What is Biarritz for you? What does this city evoke you or the place that inspires you the most?

I am very little nostalgic but I remain sensitive to this elegant era of the beginning of the century and what is inspiring is that this very 19th city welcomed the 21st century perfectly. The elegant and bathers have left room to athletes and surfers nicely.