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NAMES THAT HAVE A FAMILY
Like most of my colleagues who want to have a modicum of professional conscience, I have to ask you this question. How do you come up with such wonderful names for your shoes?
In fact, it's a very intellectual and at the same time carnal relationship that I have with my creations.
Perhaps you could tell me more?
No.So I'm going to ask my question in a different way. Are you thinking first of the model or its name? The egg or the hen?
It's a very "egg and cock" question, if you'll forgive me, as my friend Jean Schulteis would have said. I'm thinking first and foremost of my model. The one who will please me and who will inevitably please others.What are your sources of inspiration?
My source is natural and vivid. It's rooted in pop culture, but also in Antiquity and the Renaissance.Do you use drinks or drugs in your work?
Listen, if I see anything come my way, I'm not going to be picky, but as a general rule and almost systematically, I'm the healthiest person in the world. I run, I walk, I do yoga, samba, cha-cha-cha. In fact, anything that allows the mind to soar and keep a clear, limpid line. A perfect line.
