I. Liberté Liberty Chéri
March, Monday 24th 2025,
The Liberty London House is my friend.
I’ve loved it since my childhood, since Little House on the Prairie, which isn’t exactly English, but I take the liberty of the shortcut, just as I’ve taken the liberty of mixing their most classic traditional prints, delightfully bourgeois, with my bold silk twill Panther. I have loyalties, and this blend is part of them.
Always, in my collections, you will find the classics of the historic English house mixed with my Prestic Panther.
Also, I will always lean towards fresh, crisp stripes in cotton poplin, but also solids: “crispy white shirt,” as my American friend Linda says—iconic Linda Wright, who, 30 years ago, believed in me and encouraged me to show my pieces, which were unique at the time, and even did it for me, introducing my brand, which wasn’t even really a brand yet, in the chicest places… Colette in Paris, Club 55 in Saint-Tropez…
This is another topic entirely; I’ll tell you more about it later, I’ll come back to it…
So here, the aim is to pay tribute to the Liberty house, which I deeply love, tied to the imagery of childhood, Laura Ingalls, and the dresses of little bridesmaids my cousin Mélanie and I wore—well-behaved little girls’ dresses that I certainly wasn’t at all, more like Sophie, Paul’s cousin, straight out of the Bibliothèque Rose and the works of the Comtesse de Ségur…
Do we ever truly escape the Bibliothèques Rose et Verte ?
Liberty, for me, is associated with that, but also with that era of Cacharel seen through Sarah Moon’s lens.
Today, Theo Gosselin’s eye enchants me just as much, and I see in the perfect face of Mathéa, framed by the raised collar of her cotton poplin shirt with fine diagonal stripes in Panther silk, a charming wink clearly directed at the proudly bourgeois style of the 80s.
Because everything is possible with the Liberty print,
transversal, intergenerational, subversive.
My first pieces mixed it with wax… Liberty twist Boubou!!!
For this collection, one piece was featured in a double-page spread in ELLE France.
The Liberty house took notice and wanted to know who was behind this unknown, unpronounceable name.
That’s how I met their agent, Mr. Laurent Lehmann, the illustrious representative of fine English houses.
Dear Laurent, thank you for sharing our common passion,
beautiful fabrics, noble materials, natural and thus luxurious in their very essence,
so many enriching discussions, so many good moments.
Respectfully,
Laurence
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