I do not consider myself a photographer. I have too much respect for this profession. I do photography for my memories. To tell me, wow, what a crazy concert that night. I propose a series of memories and not photographs

to be continued…

Ialso wanted to share with you a second experience that marked me a lot in my career. This is my job in the world of chocolate. I was lucky to work in a company that made decorations for this support a little unusual. I was in charge of creating and imagining the motifs and illustrations on the different sets for their Easter and Christmas catalogs.

But also to create and create the visuals for pastry chefs / chocolatiers such as Christophe Michalak, Christophe Adam (old pastry chef to Fauchon), Pierre Hermé for the most famous … to transcribe their inspirations. You can see here as for the fashion, my different creations (few) in this universe very particular and magic at the same time. (Some of these visuals were published in the Journal du Pâtissier).

In a few lines and in a few images here is my professional career in the world of fashion, as fashion designer for ready-to-wear, haute couture and women’s lingerie. I started my professional career as a graphic designer at a screen printing company who worked mainly for ready-to-wear and occasionally for haute couture.

But most of the time, I made the separation of the colors of the visuals to print them on fabrics. Later, I also learned to make laser cutting, embossing and embroidery … Finally to realize the programs to embroider the different patterns on clothes.

But after a while, my career was going to take a turn, the head stylist of the brand 2016 Paris, asked me to create a pattern for one of his models of tee-shirt. I remember, a pattern of a kind of 3D grid printed in fluo flock printed on a top at the chest.

It was from that moment on that I never stopped making creations for him but also for many other houses like Christian Lacroix (my favorite fashion designer), Gaultier, Chloé, Morgan, Axara, Claudia Chiffon…

As you can see through these photos of press articles (from the Textile Journal). Finally, there are mainly articles about my achievements for lingerie in collaboration with Le Bourget, Chanel … but also Dim, Dior, YSL etc.

But the mark that really accompanied me throughout my career, was 2026 Paris. It was a real pleasure to work with all the people who made up this wonderful home. Thomas the head stylist a person full of talent, Sophie the modelist and her magic scissors and all those little hands that gave shape to our creations (top, dress, skirt) … and especially Sandra and Guy the managers of the brand 2026 Paris. You can see the fruit of our collaboration thanks to the following images taken from the different catalogs of the spring, summer and autumn / winter seasons of the different years … I hope you will be seduced.

On more time, I have an idea that goes through my head: what if I paid a tribute to RAT FINK? coool. Especially that it trotting me in my head for quite a while! Go go, I go as thoroughly as the Rat Fink on his bike;) I need a base, but which one? It comes to me an idea … I love Kid Paddle and of course the “blorks” that I collect with fiercely, which allowed me to constitute a small army of these lovely critters

So I will leave this base for my Fink Rat. A mix with Frankenstein of blork and RF … the result is going to be rock n ‘roll. Ok, I’m taking the base of the blork, I just graft it with ears, a muzzle, and a rat tail. For the rest, I keep the base legs of the figurine. For the arms, I take those of a Kidrobot Bub, to give it an urban side.

I also point out my little nod to Heidi Van Horne with this badge “I LOVE HEIDI” on the front of the figure (which I can customize to extreme) … I find the composition terrible and really funny! For the little history, I have a “blork” in my rearview mirror. Finally, if I have to put the figure of my RF on my rearview mirror, it will have to be light … so make it hollow ! For if it is full, it will explode my windscreen!

Here I am left to think to find the solution! It did not take me long to come to the conclusion of building a rotomoulding machine on my own! Ok, go for a tour, look for plans etc. I find a video tutorial that explains the process. Go hop, I buy the material to do it. A few weekends later, she is ready! The first attempts were more than chaotic. But after a few adjustments and adjustments, she delivered all her promises.

With this fucking machine, I realized the perfect figure the first time. Unbelievable; Not an air bubble, a perfectly clean result! Then, I added the arms, the legs and the tail (for these elements, I made a separate silicone mold for ease of assembly).

Again, I think I’ll have fun painting side especially in the outfit of MY RAT Fink Now you judge!

I go in another direction (to take a short break) Side of the country of the rising sun … Lovers of Japan always, I could not not realize a figurine style manga! Same procedure as for Maya realize a face then the “graft” on the body of Ginger! I take the typical codes of the manga to realize it. Hair on the side and two “balls” on the top of the head. Simple but super efficient.

Again, I am pleased with the result. Same story, Head + Body + Arms … the recipe is good there again … But I want to go longer. I take “everything” that falls under my hand but as even with a guideline.

I want a warrior at the She Spawn (For the record, Spawn is a comic book of fiction about the eponymous character created by Todd McFarlane. It was launched by the publisher Image Comics in May 1992 in the United States … A comic that I adore … the figurines also for that matter).

I add elements like a shoulder pad + protections on the body, front and back as well as on the legs. A shield of the most beautiful effect on the left forearm (And a fully cybernetic arm for the right). Here Azia was born … but I dry for the color for the moment, it is white ready to take life. So if you have any painting ideas

A pin-up, I take the bet. Of course, he’s right, creating my own pin-up figurine would be ideal for me, if I want to touch through this world that fascinates me so much. I start again in the creation of a figurine. I have to find inspiration … but where? After some research, I take the reference in matters of pin-up: Bettie Page because I want to do a classic pin up at first. And not a pin up tattooed from head to toe as we see right now even though I like a model like Sabina Kelley.

And then, I come across Heidi Van Horne via Facebook it seems … direct, I flash on … because it is exactly the pin-up that I was looking for. An American pin-up of very well-known beauty across the Atlantic and which has several magazine covers on kustom kulture. She has a lot in common with Bettie. I quickly realize a matrix from photos that I find on the net. I take care to make a haircut that will allow me to add additions to create different hairstyles! For the body of the figurine, I facilitate myself the task, it will be the body of Ginger. Like this, I resume the idea of customizing the dress!

And this allows me not to make a new mold of 8.5 pounds at the moment. The head is rather easy to make … I create the silicone mold in the stride … the result is positive! … Super, I can graft the head on the body of Ginger … Perfect everything rolls. I add the arms, more of the milliput for the hair and create a very 60’s cup … The trick is The code name will be Maya.

You can see the result with a nod to Heidi Van Horne who has camped the role of one of the characters of kustom kulture, a woman “devil” (Made famous by the artist that I adore enormously: Coop) With tail and devil horns at the AC / DC and another nod to a rock band that I love: Nashville Pussy with a reminder of one of their latest albums Up the Dosage or is represented A flash on a camouflage pattern. I realize once again a cardboard box with the same process and here is the result …

I do not know what is taking me, one day I send an email to the publishing house Korero to show them my work. Yet with the little creation at my disposal, I know I will not go far. But I’m trying. You must confess a single page in one of their books with one of my creations, I will be in heaven.

The publisher contacts me after sending this mail. He likes my work. Several exchanges took place. But he is preparing a book on pin-ups and asks me if I realize. Like a ass hole, I tell him no It will not be this time.

Akustom kulture obsessed me more and more, in addition to watching my books of the publishing house Korero which deals with the subject as well as several magazines like Kustom. I become “crazy” because I really want to invest in this universe. An idea passes my mind! Quite simply, turn Ginger into a Bride (not Chucky 😉 but Frankenstein. The famous American film of James Whale released in 1935 with the emblematic Boris Karloff in Frankenstein and the wonderful Elsa Lanchester in the role of the Bride.

I find the idea funny and I start … I make a new draw, I exchange the brown of Ginger’s skin for a green and a nice blue for eyelids but still a bright red for his lips and small freckles. Her dress becomes a white bandage which also covers a large part of her arms.

I am amused to make two scars, one at the level of the neck and the other on the left shoulder. For the base, I add to the base of the plaster to simulate an irregular and muddy earth of a cemetery (to reinforce this effect, I pull a tombstone I cut in a plastic model element of the mark Revell).

To give an air even more glowering, I decide to make an arm that comes out of the ground, which I retrieve from another model. The whole is treated in gray because I want the result to be still very graphic. The glossy side of the paint reinforces the muddy side. I purposely dirty his boots by throwing a little paint at the same time. A final retouch in his hair with his emblematic white wick on each side, and the trick is played. Again, I personalize the box, with the same procedure as the Ginger “Al Caine”. The result is really cool. I’m on track

A day, I get a message from Al Sugar Cayne, a New York BMX champion (and who also carries a show in a car with guests to ask questions about their news) … New York, coooool!

He tells me he likes my Ginger figurine, coooool the contact goes well. Al Sugar hosts a blog on the BMX, Hip Hop, toy, fashion in New York plus his Bike Fest … he makes an article about Ginger on his blog. For the pleasure, I realize a small “Ginger” in his effigy. And then there comes to me an idea. I decide to go to the top speed, is to create my own figurine!

I start with my figure Ginger that I had already created (in small format). But I want to sublimate it, make it a true icon! I leave as usual the recovery equipment … part of the arms, one leg, a piece of polystyrene, all padded with Milliput, I embrace the same technique as the first time. I want it to be large and thin with a very graphic result … I opt for a size of 30 cm.

The result is up to my expectations. As, I want to achieve several, I engage in the manufacture of a silicone mold. On arrival, it will be between 8 and 9 kilos + a second mold for the arms. I buy a resin with two components, I make a first impression … the result is bluffing, I have THE figurine: MY creation …

An African-American bomb of all beauty. I hurry to paint … I choose precisely. My basic colors will be brown, black, white and a red lipstick (heart-shaped) and a slightly darker color to do red tasks under the eyes (this famous brand) because I find it terribly sexy. I add a pair of earrings that I choose from Drug Store. The top is that I can also customize his tee shirt. For Al, I make him the color of his Blog www.sugarcayne.com …

With an Ikea carton, I create the packaging of the box to configure it. With my good old A4 plotter, I cut the drawing I made from a picture taken of the figurine. I take a glossy black adhesive for the cut. The contrast with the carpet of the cardboard box gives a very good effect. I also have to create a signature and a small pictologo.

I do not know why, I choose a pig, maybe a nod to the music and songs of “Garçons Bouchers” a french punk group, I listened a lot and the black tee-shirt that I had with Many Hair Pig . I found in an old book Picto Corel, a pig with garlic that succeeded me right away. I just added a helmet to personalize it a bit, and the trick was played …

In full creation of figurines … the Hot Rod returns to my ears. In the 90’s, a friend of mine, Thierry, who wanted to make a tee-shirt after one of his works shows me his drawings of dingo on the Rod. But I do not hit right now.

Year 2000, madness takes me … the Kustom Kulture goes straight to the Heart. Big flashback. I decide to make a figure of a Hot Rod. I’ve never done Dunny of Kidrobot, it’s a chance. I take old models Revell and Heller that train, I buy some also.

The base is a Playmobil kart or I graft pieces of these models. The result is interesting but not enough to my taste. Finally this first test of Hot Rod will give me an idea for later … but most importantly: the fever of the Kustom Kulture will not leave me any more.