When Audacity is Rewarding
I got the chance to meet the iconic French fashion designer agnès b. in 2014 at the opening of a new concept store in Paris. At the time, my audience was limited to my circle of friends, who were (obviously!) all fully enthusiastic about my patterns. I value my friends’ opinion, but it was time to have some professional feedback. I went to the event with my sketchbook, with the only objective of meeting anyone from her creative team who would be up to take a look at it.
When I arrived, none of the people I was expecting to see were there. Nobody but agnès b.! It was a unique opportunity to make myself known. I had no choice but to tear a page out of my sketchbook and to give it to her with my contact details.
Dismembering my precious art journal was not an easy thing to do and so tearing out the last drawn page seemed to be a bearable loss, as I could redo the pattern on the next page. The last drawn page was The Socks, and I thought that it was a beautiful coincidence.
After an hour of me trying to approach the busy agnès b., I was finally able to get close enough to give her the piece of paper. To my amazement two weeks later her assistant called me, wondering if the pattern was for sale: agnès b. wanted to make a shirt with it. Six months after, the shirt was available in shop. And I happily redrew The Socks in the sketchbook!
