On the wake of Paris Fashion Week, we offer you a look at the story of French up
and coming designer Marine Serre. At only 26 she can already say she won the
Galeries Lafayette prize, the LVMH prize and the respect of her peers. And this is
without saying that she only did two seasons at Paris Fashion Week.
Marine Serre was raised in Corrèze, in the South West of France. She played
tennis from a young age at a high level, which heavily inspired her to create pieces
incorporating sportswear elements, such as zips. Her CV is to die for, between
internships at Alexander McQueen (right after the designer’s death), Dior,
Maison Margiela and Raf Simons, she left her fingerprints at various fashion
houses. She now works next to Demna Gvasalia for Balenciaga.
The designer says it herself, her influences have nothing to do with Parisian
chic. In her collections she plays with tackiness, bright colors, oversized
shapes. Her designs are also centered around thrifting and repurposing items
to give them a second life. For example, she created handbags out of gym balls.
From her first collection, "Radical call for love" for FW17, we remember the infamous color-blocked working gloves...
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