I am a Paris-based textile designer with great interest in painting, design, architecture, vintage cars, Latin America, illustration, Italy, jewelery, food, etc... I was born in Mexico City to a Mexican mother and a French-Corsican father. People are often surprised by such an explosive and weird mix, but no need to worry...
I currently work as free lance embroidery designer for different fashion houses in France and India. While doing my first internship at the ELLE magazine at 15, I never expected to do embroidery or surface design but I knew somehow that my loves of art, textiles, history and crafts would eventually merge.
I went to college at Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré (better know here in Paris as just Duperré) majoring in Womenswear Design with a minor in Hand Embroidery. I started working for Parisian fashion label Chloé while still finishing school and have been in fashion since.
One thing that I have learned as a designer is that creativity doesn’t always come easily and spontaneaously. You need to be out and about and open to inspiration. I go out there, taking my dear old vélo, wandering the streets of Paris or any other city I’m visiting. Looking at how people dress (or how they move, what they do, what they eat) sitting at a café is one of my favourite activities. Very Parisian some may say…
You can find inspiration everywhere, you just have to keep your eyes (and all the other senses, actually) open. It can come from a pattern, the necklace of the girl sitting next to you, the laugh of your friends, the colour of the sky, the sound of rain, the smell of a Romeo y Julieta cigar, the strong yet subtle taste of a noisette...
