Author Archives: Axelle

Coco

Fashion isn’t something that exists solely in clothes.
Fashion is in the air, carried by the wind.
You can sense it.
Fashion is in the sky, on the street.
Coco Chanel

And for those who wish to take things further and enrich their own research, here is the result of our work within the trends committee of the French Federation of Textile and Surface Design: a wonderful partnership between LA TRAME and NELLY RODI!

Members who wish to do so now have access to a seasonal trend book, tailor-made for our profession as textile designers, covering both fashion and homeware.

And to complement this comprehensive resource, a webinar hosted by Catherine Basquin from the NELLY RODI agency will be held each season to help you make the most of these creative ideas!

Would you like to join and receive the first AW2223 trend book?
Visit the LA TRAME website.

Grain d’aile

On this Mother’s Day, I wanted to share with you these few pictures of Grain d’aile, my favourite book, which my mum gave me when I was five…

Naturally, I chose this one to present to the reading club in Year 1.
It was so beautiful and must have been a big hit… so much so that it was eventually ‘borrowed’ and never returned.
I still remember how sad I felt at the time, as the book was no longer in print in this illustrated version… It was only more than 30 years later that I finally found this book again – second-hand in the same edition, the 1977 one – and wept with joy!

So here are a few extracts from this magnificent tale written by Paul Eluard for Jacqueline Duhême, who illustrated it…