Harper\'s Bazaar UK - 10.2019

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flat boots, APC tops, Gucci handbags, Ref-

ormation dresses and pieces by Valentino

and Dries Van Noten. Also on the rails is a

white silk slip that she wore to get married

in Venice almost three years ago. ‘I didn’t

want to be that person who gets a wedding

dress and can’t ever wear it again,’ she says.

‘I had this made a bit shorter and I take it on

every holiday.’

Her keen eye for design also led to her

homeware collection in collaboration with

Habitat earlier this year, with several items,

including a geometric-printed rug and cush-

ions with embroidered eye motifs, now

furnishing the couple’s home. ‘I also love

it when people repurpose things,’ she says.

‘Our bathroom mirror is actually an

old window frame that I found at the

Architectural Forum – a cool old antiques

Right: wool jacket,

£1,350; matching

trousers, £525, both

Loewe. Bottom left:

silk georgette top,

£1,339, Chloé.

Jeans, her own

network within the fashion industry.’
Her big break came in 2010, shortly after
she graduated with an MA in illustration
from Central Saint Martins, when a tipsy
late-night conversation with her flatmate
sparked an idea to make an online video
inspired by a line of Chanel nail polishes.
Featuring dancing hands and enchanting
collages, the resulting stop-motion film
caught the eye of Chanel’s directors, who
commissioned her to make more. In the
years that followed, her distinctive multi-
media approach – layering photography
with illustrations and cut-out images – was
used in campaigns for other luxury brands,
including Louis Vuitton and
Victoria Beckham. ‘I like the
challenge of working with a
product that’s got such a well-
defined image, and figuring out
how to interpret it,’ she says. ‘It’s
more engaging as an artist to
work like that.’
Quentin clearly loves fash-
ion as much as it loves her and
has turned one of the upstairs
bedrooms into a dressing-room.
‘I have a split personality when
it comes to clothes,’ she says. ‘At
night I really go for it, because
I enjoy getting dressed-up, but
in the day, particularly with
what I do, and with being a
mother, I tend to be quite tom-
boyish and usually wear jeans
and a T-shirt.’ As a result, her
wardrobe is a high-low mix of
Birkenstocks and Balenciaga
jeans, Saint Laurent blazers and