SELL YOUR JEWELRY
Magazine 58F
Inès de la Fressange launches her eponymous jewelry brand
A true fashion icon, Inès de la Fressange is a benchmark of French elegance. After developing her own brand in fashion, decoration and perfumery, she is now launching into jewelry and unveils her first Eclats collection, as dazzling as her personality.
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Could you define for us the style of the Parisian that you represent so well? Inès de la Fressange: Thank you and in my opinion, the Parisienne's style is heterogeneous, a mixture of luxury and sport, with a great sense of freedom and never anything ostentatious. A Parisian, whatever her purchasing power, will always manage to have style by adding new products to her wardrobe each season while keeping old things. She buys clothes or jewelry primarily to feel good about herself and not to impress. The Parisian is proud but not pretentious. She also has a great sense of freedom. |
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You already offer a whole universe ranging from fashion to perfume and decoration. What is your creative thread? Inès de la Fressange: Most of the time, I imagine things that I want, but I can't find these everyday products on the market. Thus, I met certain people, whose competence and know-how I admire, who made me want to collaborate with them. It is especially the materials and materials that inspire me. But, my problem is more to curb my desires than to find ideas! (laughs) |
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What motivated you to launch a jewelry line? Inès de la Fressange: It's difficult to love fashion and not accessories, whether costume jewelry or jewelry. Personally, I prefer clothes that I will wear every day than those for big evenings and the same goes for jewelry. The idea is to find your clothes and your jewelry which become like harmonious accomplices to beautify life. For style, the search for sensuality and fluidity seemed essential to me while avoiding banality. I like paradoxes: forms of nature frozen and punctuated with multicolored stones seemed new and timeless to me at the same time. |
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What are your main inspirations? Inès de la Fressange: It can be exhibitions, books, auction catalogs, Pinterest or films… But, I also have recurring obsessions with clothes and jewelry. Being obsessive often goes hand in hand with creativity! (laughs) |
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Can you tell us about your inspirations for your first Eclats collection? Inès de la Fressange: Eclats is a bit like “é.clous” too! Nails like in a frame, nails for building. At the start of our collaboration with Aglaya (Editor's note: the jewelry creation studio), we talked a lot about my tastes in jewelry. I spoke to them about diamonds cut very “naively” in the Middle Ages or in India (rose cuts), about antique jewelry, seen in paintings or found in tombs, about this habit that I also had of living with my jewelry without changing them sometimes for weeks. |
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From these different visions was born the Eclats collection like a poem? Inès de la Fressange: Indeed, all beautiful stories start from poetry and in the chaos of passions, something often happens... Thus, earrings, bracelets or necklaces were born as punctuations which give meaning to sentences:“Eclats”: the beginning of a story, like a house that one builds and it starts from a spark, a diamond around the neck, a nail in the ear.
“Eclats”: a new jewel but which recalls history. “Shards”: as if coming from a chandelier in an old house. “Eclats”: finally which punctuates a very French outfit. |
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What is your favorite stone and why this stone? Inès de la Fressange: I have been wearing a sapphire on my finger for a long time. I love that you have to look at this stone carefully to be sensitive to its beauty and that its color varies from day to day. It seems that it promotes inspiration, meditation and concentration, so it's all good! (laughs) |
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What meaning does jewelry have for you? Inès de la Fressange: A small concentrate of culture, refinement, feeling, memories which accompany us for a moment in our life and which have a scent of eternity. |
Can you tell us the theme of your next collection?
Inès de la Fressange: It will be beautiful & desirable!
Interview conducted by Kyra Brenzinger - Editor-in-Chief.