What is isabel marant

I had to book models, but to me they were all the same — they would ask for Linda Evangelista and I would get Claudia Schiffer instead.

She often wore miniskirts and had beautiful legs. I am more the mother of my mother. Mid, Isabel opened her fourth Paris shop in a beautiful Art Nouveau corner building in the 16th arrondissement, close to her childhood home of Neuilly. Much of the press around Isabel Marant implies that the brand lay dormant for years and has recently exploded.

Either way, the label has reached a tipping point where it can no longer enjoy under-the-radar status. Paula Reed told me she became aware of the brand about ten years ago in her previous life as a fashion journalist. In France, the word tendance trend is often used pejoratively. But what happens when your anti-tendance approach becomes the tendance du jour? Isabel is sensitive to this question. I never thought about being a big, internationally known brand.

Customers need to understand the brand, but I never want to be on every street corner — I would hate that. Her husband, Jerome Dreyfuss, is also a fashion designer, and they have a 9-year-old son, Tal. Jerome and Isabel met while taking part in a French TV programme about 16 years ago and became a couple as soon as he persuaded her that his being seven years younger was immaterial.

They welcome visitors, mostly old friends who now work in fields such as music and film. To create room for socialising, she requires an ordered existence.

Two nights a week, Jerome takes charge of Tal, and Isabel stays at the studio as long as she needs to. When her staff leave at 7. I look at my pictures. I redesign things. I try and solve things. When it comes to fashion shows, though, Isabel prefers company. Her father died just over ten years ago. With her no-fuzz mind-set and cool style, Marant is here to stay. There is no doubt she will hand over her designer job to a successor yet.

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Recommended for you. These historic fashion moments are now on YouTube. She enjoyed dressing provocatively and would borrow from her father's closet - wearing his silk dressing gowns with slippers and refashioning his old jumpers as dresses. Early style inspiration came from childhood trips abroad to Asia, Africa, India and the Caribbean, as well as from parental figures: "I have a clear memory of my hysterical, alcoholic governess who wore crazy clothes; she inspired me a lot!

My West-Indian stepmother, who brought me up from the age of six, was very chic, very "Yves Saint Laurent". She gave me allure," Marant told an Australian magazine in In , tired of not being able to find clothes she liked in store, Marant asked her father for a sewing machine and began making pieces out of discarded clothing and fabric.

Friends soon began asking her to recreate pieces for them, but a career in fashion still wasn't a consideration for Marant: "I wasn't at all interested in fashion; I didn't know what it was.

A couple of years later, at the age of about 16, Marant's earnings from selling her clothing were enough to make her reconsider her plans to study economics after high school. Following her studies Marant interned with Parisian designer Michel Klein in Shortly afterwards, in , Marant began launching her own collections. Despite her success she has said she regrets not taking the time to work with other designers for longer before starting out on her own: "I would have loved to have spent one or two years in the studios at Chanel or Saint Laurent I have an immense love for the artisan, for all the artistic crafts around couture, and it's true that I regret enormously not having taken the time to learn in studios and spend time there.