Fashion designer Isabel Marant is rebellious, French, bohemian, nonchalant and always classy. Find out the recipe of her well-known style and super successful label below. However, Marant nails this style and knows how to sell it. We are thrilled to announce our first makeup collection in collaboration with lorealmakeup! Stay tuned for the big reveal lorealxisabelmarant comingsoon. As a kid, Marant hated fashion. Because her brother got all the attention, she started to be rebellious.
At only the age of 16, she started to sell her homemade clothing together with her former boyfriend, who happens to be a fashion designer as well. Since she liked to make and sell clothes, Marant went to Studio Bercot, after which she designed jewellery.
Her mom suggested her to design a younger line for her own knitwear label and so Marant did. Producing them in various colour combinations under an alliterative series of names such as Bayley and Bekket, she sold about 80, pairs last year. Isabel credits her late father for her businesslike genes. He was a conservative Parisian company manager whose attitude she likens to that of the actor Jean Gabin, star of La Grande Illusion.
On the day we met, Isabel was wearing a slim red wool jumper with three gold buttons on either shoulder over a lightweight grey cotton T-shirt, along with a pair of close-fitting but not skin-tight snakeskin print trousers. On her feet were completely flat black suede booties. I am not a high-heel person. The Isabel Marant collections are based around a few simple pieces: tight, straight and often cropped trousers; soft, unstructured shirts and blouses; unusual, chunky knits; and tailored jackets and coats.
A typical Isabel Marant outfit — a loose peasant blouse and a pair of tight, cropped leather trousers — allows the wearer to tread the line between boho and rock chick. Her hair is most often pulled back from her face into a high topknot. She leaves her smattering of greys untroubled, and likewise, at our meeting she wore absolutely no make-up — not no-make-up make-up, but no make-up.
Isabel smiles and laughs constantly. This feeling seems to be shared by everyone she works with. Members of her staff all but purr when she comes close.
As we made the short walk across Place des Victoires, Isabel carried an entire restaurant place setting with her. Most Parisian restaurants balk at the idea of doggy bags, let alone off-site eating, but Isabel softens rules. Installed at our table, we were given a plate of radishes and a dish of butter, which Isabel ate by lobbing small bits of butter in her mouth and following them with bites of radish. The buttery fish had that property unique to French food of being delicate but also extremely rich, which somehow makes you feel full for hours.
She must have looked as enviably cool then as now, because her friends started asking if she could make them clothes too.
When she was around 16, she really engaged with fashion. I was totally crazy about Westwood. It was a more grungy mood, and it appealed to me. There was a shop in Paris, Le Depot on Rue Quincampoix, where you could drop off your creations and they would pay you when they sold.
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. In she set up her own label with a studio in Paris' trendy Marais district. As when she was young, she bases her creations on her own style and tastes: "I am my first customer My approach has always been: would I like to wear this garment?
Her first show, for the spring-summer season, was held in the courtyard of a squat with her friends modelling. Marant won the Award de la Mode in , and the Whirlpool Award for best female designer in The first Isabel Marant store, a former artist's studio on rue de Charonne in the Bastille district, opened in Paris in February This was followed by a second store on rue Jacob in Saint Germain des Pres in February , and a third store on rue de Saintonge in The focus of the collection was jeans and T-shirts.
Marant's son, Tal, was born in Marant spends most of her weekends with her family at their cabin just outside of Paris: "It's a place where you clear your head and come back with fresh ideas," she said in She launched a childrenswear line in and also launched a pop-up boutique in Paris' Printemps department store and collaborated with Anthropologie on a collection in
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