9 Quotes by Christophe Lemaitre

I’m very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it’s going well. I have a feeling of maturity.

It’s very difficult to do street casting with girls, because a beautiful girl in real life won’t necessarily have the silhouette or the presence needed for a show.

I’m happy when I see a girl on the bus, or on the street, and start wondering about her. Sometimes I see a woman and I ask myself: Who is she? You want to know what her job is. Who she is? You start fantasizing. There’s a certain aura, a certain charm that we try to reproduce.

What’s important for me is to find the right kind of girls who express a vision of a woman. We like girls who look smart and intelligent with natural beauty – a certain quality of skin and hair. And she doesn’t look exactly like a model.

We are extremely precise about the girls we like; they’re not necessarily the “It” girls of the season. Sometimes this “It” girl business gets a bit hysterical. It’s all about which girl did which shoot with which photographer.

I don’t like clothes that constrict. The idea is that they should accompany and help you. There’s nothing superficial about getting dressed. Clothes can give you self-confidence and help you be yourself.

Fashion has always been nourished by the past. At the end of the day, where the inspiration comes from doesn’t matter. It’s what you do with it. How you treat it, how you translate it into a contemporary wardrobe. You put it in a shaker.

I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.

What I like to do is take something from a man’s wardrobe and re-proportion it slightly. We’ve got another jacket in this collection with a smaller shoulder. It’s the idea of subtle feminization, to make the clothes more delicate.