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Karine Jean: Bohemian Rock Traveller And Fashion Designer

– When I draw, I do not draw for me. It’s for an ideal of woman more feminine than me. Now I try to get in this feminine world.

Between two flights to Asia, the rangy slender hyper active Karine conceives and organizes her collections and makes her prototypes and goes to professional trades and sells her collections. She loves India and tomorrow she’ll take off for Beijing. This big traveler defines the “Karine Jean” brand style as:

– Romantic, a bit rock’n’roll, with an unpretentious hippie chic influence. I need to feel comfortable. In my fabrics selection from Japan, India and Italy: it has to be a bit shiny and fun!

Her customers are “deeply urban”. And her collections are retailed in few Marais and 7th Arrondissement of Paris boutiques and also in Asia: Japan, Korea and Taiwan

And when I notice her blouse is the master piece of this collection, break, thinking look, Karine agrees :

– It’s really my thing. I find my inspiration in memories of my mum, I got frames.

Click here to discover my selection of the five fashion designers I met @ the Bouche à Oreille trade.

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Leonard: flowers and fluid elegance

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Beautiful paper and generous graphic design, I really like the flower on the invitation card. I’m a big flowers and detail and line lover. The hall is full, heterogeneous audience : Madame de Fontenay (the famous organiser of Miss France) escorted by one of her Miss ? I’m really not involved in celebrities stuff…Oh Maybe Sonia Rolland (ex Miss, now a TV actress). Lots of fashion journalists, around me many German and Russian ones. Vague impression of a right balance between the old France and the international hype : unusual match. I’m waiting for the show, like my neighbours.

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The show’s ending and I still haven’t fixed my video problem of my « other me », my capricious Canon ! Some fabrics are absolutely fabulous ! Now I can better understand  the big success of Leonard in Japan. On daily I don’t use printed fabrics, I prefer minimalist plaint fabrics. But I confess : Leonard’s flowers are gorgeous and irresistible !

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I knew the brand’s name. But I’ve discovered with this show, a really infectious classical and modern elegance. With the excellent Michel Gaubert soundtrack. And a top feminine make-up. Great hair like the Botticelli’s Venus : congratulations Mr Marc Lopez ! At last, lovely models with a great grooming. Congrat to the catwalk coach too : at last (again) slender walks ! It’s so important ! Bones teens girls disguised as women badly walking : I simply can’t look at the cloth ! 

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And of course there are those incredibly fluid dresses, especially the black background and « Ryokan » flowers printed  ones : a big fantasy ! Yes ! Those dresses reminds me the perfect dressing of a Seventies-early Eighties TV actress. Puffed sleeves and tide shoulders, or hippies chic bustier dresses and I imagine Angie Dickinson in the late Seventies. Or an extra on the « Boat Love » set. And Purdey of « The Avengers ». With Ben Gazzara as an escort boy, dressed in white flares and suit and thin Ray Ban sunglasses surrounded with gold. Wow !

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So beautiful, here the printed dress of my next sexy winter ! Irresistible, isn’t it ? Yes I love being a vintage « Charlie’s Angel » ! Wow wOw so exciting ! Champagne Leonard !

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