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[Web Creator] [LMSOFT]
metropolissimo
brussels
belgian creator benoît coutiez
benoît 's desk
benoît's closet
When did your first start making clothes?
In 1997, drawing costumes for Opera projects. Just drawing, for my pleasure…. Armide Iphigénie en Tauride, Orfeo e Euridice of Gluck…

Was it difficult for you to start? Did you have any help?
U need a lot of money and a good sense of marketing or an help about. I haven’t nothing except myself as help…so…

What inspires you?
Everything I can take from “Poetry”, I mean “Sense of Poetry”: movies, pictures, nature, smells, tastes, people, sensuality in general.

How would you describe your aesthetic?
Like something that comes from me and my dreams: poetry again.

What is your personal style?
Comfortable and feminine, open, closed, fragile, strong, structured and destructured.

What are your most beloved finds?
Multiplicity of desires.

Who are your personal style icons? 
Vanessa Redgrave.

What creators do you admire?
It depends, I respect a lot their works…..it can be H. Chalayan or Christian Lacroix sometimes….it’s a question of collections, I don’t like everything of everyone…..I don’t believe in one style but I believe in good work….so many things are interesting.

What is one wardrobe staple that every woman/ man should have?
A cachemire scarf.

What is one thing you would never be caught wearing?
I hate leather (for myself), I can’t wear a trouser in leather, for example…..

What advice would you give for people who want to start?
Keep smile because it’s hard!

What is the best thing about what you do?
Comfort and sensuality.

What was the biggest challenge you ran into along the way?
A new collection of 20 clothes made by myself in 3 weeks.

Where do you see yourself in ten years?
At home, making new clothes.

What is your favourite fashion photographer?
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin.

What do you like to listen to while your work and how much influence does music have on your creations?
Music is everything, I often listen to l’Arpeggiata, it comfort me but I’ve a lot of different music as Cocorosie, The smiths, piano works, PJ Harvey and sometimes the noise of the my street.

What websites do you read every day?
My mail boxes.

What’s your favourite time of day?
 Middle of afternoon, I finished to digest my lunch and I feel good with myself.

When are you happiest?
When I’m in love.

What’s your favourite season?
Spring.

How do you relax after a hard day?
A warm bath still the best thing.

Please describe what you see around you right now.
A lot of fabrics, my computer, my iron, cigarettes, flowers I putted on my balcony and a very cloudy sky, unfortunately.

What’s on your desk?
A lot of disorder, I’m afraid.

What’s on your closet?
A lot of material: wires, needles, pencils, glue, and  plastic libels.
 

 

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