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Claire Colin was born at the end of the summer 1979 by an afternoon of September. She has grown among the flowers, rocked by the purring of sewing machines and the sweet odors of kitchen. Coiled in the cotton scraps, the ribbons, the laces, the balls, the reels. Sensitive and assiduous, she transforms, distorts, draws, cuts, hemstitches, folds, pleats, stamps, sews, braids, ties, laces up, curls, all that's within the range of her hand. At dawn of her 18 years, she goes up to Paris to make hatch her dreams, and attends a double training in fashion design and textile art and printing at ESAA DUPERRE. She asserts an abundant universe, at the same time feminine, capricious, cheeky, poetic, and coloured, directed to shaping, the metamorphosis of wire, plastic and paper. With its skilful fingers, she cherishes, sublimates, transcends these fragile and ordinary treasures, and gives birth with passion and amusement to a charming and sophisticated imaginary, where textile delicacies, mysterious flora, jagged patterns and incredible ornaments cohabit. Just graduate, she starts as textile designer freelance and is approached for the design of textile patterns for the woman, the child, the lace, and the embroidery, in particular for the Nelly Rodi style office. Christian Lacroix, Martin Margiela, La Maison du Chocolat, its peers she admires, approve her. In 2004, she creates her first collection of fashion accessories entirely devoted to lace of scoubidou with the suggestive name of « Dentelle gourmande ». She is crowned "relief price" in 2004. |