Spring breeze in a bright, colourful, and joyful family apartment in central Paris.

I’m 42, Parisian, and I’ve always lived in Paris. My husband and I have been married for nearly 15 years; he works in the property sector. I have three children: Gaïa, who is thirteen and a half; Maurice, who will soon be ten; and Jacques, who is almost five.

I trained as a fashion designer. I studied at Studio Berceau in Paris, and then I worked for several brands, mostly French ones. I began my career as a designer with Capucine Puerari. Then, I joined Sonia Rykiel, where I worked under Nathalie Rykiel, and I worked with her on the lingerie collections as well as the peripheral projects they were able to create around the brand. Then I returned to Claudie Pierlot before I was asked by H&M to work on a project that was very much in its infancy at the time: &other stories. I spent two and a half years working on the brand concept and on setting up a design office in Paris before they opened. Then, for over three years, I worked on developing the collections that were destined for Paris. I left in 2017 to become the artistic director of the Tara Jarmon brand. I started my own business just before the lockdown. When the pandemic hit, I was freelancing for a variety of brands. The lockdown hit pretty hard! We left and went to the country. It was there I went back to what I’d started a year earlier: embroidering bandanas with my children’s names and framing them for their bedrooms. My friends asked me to make some for them. They posted about them spontaneously on social networks and then… All hell broke loose! In the space of a couple of days, I found myself with around a hundred requests. People thought it was a brand… So, I created it as one.

Everything happened completely organically, and as the days went on, I found embroiderers. I was contacted by Le Bon Marché, who asked me to think about designing a collection of accessories… Things were complicated given the context at the time (Covid-19, editors note) but also completely fluid. Everything unfolded naturally, step by step. I now work almost exclusively on developing the brand. Initially, it grew well in France, but now it’s expanding to the United States and Asia.

The collection consists of hand-embroidered, personalised American bandannas made up in a variety of forms. We also do some up-cycling. I find vintage bandanas and transform them into unique, ready-to-wear pieces.

I grew up in Paris, in a fairly traditional environment. My parents are both lawyers. They had their own practice. I was privately educated, but it soon became apparent that I had a penchant for all things artistic, particularly drawing and painting. My parents took us to museums a lot. By the time I was about twelve, I knew that I wanted to be a fashion designer. My mother loves fashion. She’s kept the most beautiful pieces from throughout her life, in particular, Saint Laurent from the 1970s. She also loved one of the first concept stores in Paris, the now defunct Hémisphère, which brought together the finest craftsmanship from around the world: the very best Scottish Shetland, Mexican skirts… This had a big influence on my taste for fashion and crafts: I like truly authentic, timeless, handmade things. And that goes for fashion as well as interior design in my home!

My father loves decorating and is a great admirer of Madeleine Castaing. So there was a real bias: leopard-print carpets, fabrics with lots of flowers and stripes, mixtures of prints and really bold colours. I certainly didn’t grow up in a restrained environment! Our apartment was on the top floor of a house with a mansard roof, so it had an attic, which was very cosy, almost reminiscent of an English country house. It was quite surprising for a Parisian interior!

I spend a lot of time on Instagram looking at galleries and artists. Recently, I spotted Sarfo Emmanuel Annor, a South African photographer who specialises in portraiture in super-strong colours. I’m also very interested in figurative contemporary painting, like the work of Claire Tabouret. And I’ve always admired craftsmanship. Last year, I became obsessed with the Pichon factory, which makes these woven bowls in the south of France. I bought a lot of them all at once, especially on eBay…

I have three paintings by Idir Davaine, two of which are hanging here, one in the dining room, the other in the small sitting room. He’s an artist I adore. I feel an affinity with his work around shapes and colours. Everyone sees what they want to see in his paintings… He explained to me that for him, the painting in the small sitting room represents a bead curtain.

Capucine Puerari’s next-door neighbour was India Madhavi! So I became aware of her work and her use of bright, cheerful colours very early on, when I was in my twenties. Laura Gonzalez is also a very good friend of mine, and I love her green armchair. I’ve put it in my bedroom. As for the rest, we inherited lots of chairs from our parents, we were even given a sofa as a wedding present, the piano – it’s my daughter who plays it – we ended up with that after one of my childhood friends moved to Brazil… We salvage a lot here. And sometimes I fall in love, like with this little pair of stools with tiny backrests from CFOC in Paris.

No, the boys took over Gaïa’s cabin bed. They’re delighted! My daughter wanted a proper girl’s room.

The very latest. I think it’s this little mouth and this little painting by Alma Vallé, a very young artist who does a lot of ceramics and painting. I really like these knife rests in the shape of colourful mouths, very delicate and full of poetry, and this page from an old book that she repainted and then framed. And just next to them, still on the mantelpiece, there’s a drawing by an artist I discovered on Instagram, Mary Eastman. I had visited the Hockney/Matisse exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Nice not long before. I must have been influenced by it (laughs)!

We’ve launched a household collection of tablecloths and placemats, which we’re continuing to develop. We’ve got quite a few collaborations coming on-stream in the spring, including one with K-Jacques that we started last year and which went down really well. And during the French Open, we have one with a sports brand called The Ace Club. And finally, there will be a new collaboration with Liberty.

I’ve been dreaming about the Mara shelves, which are so ingenious and modular, and I think it’s such a novel idea to put them behind a sofa as a little piece of occasional furniture!

Debauve et Gallais, a delicious historic chocolate maker… and Clover on rue Perronet. I often have lunch there. It’s as beautiful as it is good, and the place is intimate and cheerful. Sisley in Rue du Bac: I go there for a facial or hair treatment – it’s the best way I know to feel good and leave feeling totally relaxed! Cordelia is a café and flower shop on rue du Bac. Cordelia has a gift for creating a warm, refined ambience. You can have a snack with your girlfriends or treat yourself to a pretty bouquet. Michelle Aragon on rue Jacob: You don’t always get a warm welcome, but it’s a feast for the eyes: agate-ware crockery, armchairs covered in antique kilims, antique household linen; it’s an Aladdin’s cave. Finally, Maison Fleuret, a tearoom that serves seasonal and vegetarian lunches in an old-fashioned bookshop atmosphere. At the Librairie 7L, I love hanging out there and bringing home a book on a photographer I’ve discovered by chance among their selection. Laura Gonzales, rue de Lille in Paris because she is a friend, and her creativity is equalled only by her terrific zest for life and her imagination. Her shop is just like her: colourful and cheerful.