As students in Rome,
they enrolled on the same
course; Luisa specialised in
fashion, Tine in interiors.
Post-graduation, Luisa
got a job in the Valentino
atelier working on Valentino Garavani’s final collections, while
Tine worked with her father, a renowned set designer. In the
evenings, they experimented. “I’d pick her up from Valentino,
at Piazza di Spagna, and then we would go home to create- anything. Photography, painting, drawing...” recalls Tine.
“We have a very strong connection,” insists Luisa. “We have
two very present characters and personalities, we’re very
strong, but then we find that we just understand each other.”
In 2012, they moved to a Paris apartment owned by Tine’s
family since the 1990s. Situated off a quiet street in the elegant
ninth arrondissement, up grand, winding stairs, it comprises
a series of idiosyncratic rooms that unfurl in wonderfully
haphazard style, culminating in a turquoise rotunda space
overlooking a sun-dappled garden. The building has history:
Victor Hugo lived on the first floor in the late 1840s, hosting
regular soirées and salons. Later, the comedian Charles Dullin
was resident, and legend has it that at a party in this apartment,
organised by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Albert
Camus began his love affair with Spanish actress María Casares.
One can imagine them all fitting right in at Tine and
Luisa’s place. Filled with angular furniture designed by Tine’s
father, the walls are hung with his aquarelle creations for sets,
oil paintings and curios by family friends, photographs by
her mother, and collections of antiques amassed by generations
of Peduzzis. The atmosphere is cosy. No wonder it quickly
became the perfect crash pad for their diverse gang, which
includes the Courtin-Clarins sisters and a series of filmmakers
and performers they are too polite to name.
“Everyone called it ‘the 41’, the street number of the house,”
says Luisa, pulling apart a croissant, on the winter day that
I visit. “And everyone was welcome. We might start doing a
tea, then people maybe stay for dinner, then they stay for music
and dancing, or just talking with a glass of wine until...” She
takes a sip of coffee. “Never organised, just fluid.” During a
recent Paris Fashion Week, they hosted a laid-back aperitivo
for press and buyers, but ended up having to enlist a chef friend
to cook late-night pasta for everyone. “We used to say, ‘On se
fait un quarante-et-un’ – let’s do a 41,” laughs Tine. “It’s a mood.”
The mood evidently proved quite percolative: having
completed a year of evening classes at Parsons Paris studying
textile design, drawing and photography, Tine and Luisa
launched TL-180, a contemporary bag line. They wanted to
combine the expert craftsmanship conferred by a Made-in-
Italy label with the nonchalance of a French fling-it-on
aesthetic. “At the beginning, we didn’t think about business
at all. We just wanted to make something that will last, a bag
you hand down to your daughter, no fast fashion,” says Luisa.
The bags are a hit with stars and style insiders alike; Emma
Stone, Emma Watson and Léa Seydoux are all fans. LUISA WEARS TOP, TL-180. SKIRT, LUISA’S OWN. TINE WEARS TOP, TL-180. JEWELLERY, TINE’S OWNLIVING“We might
start doing
a tea, then
people maybe
stay for
dinner, then
they stay for
music and
dancing”Below, from top: art materials fill the
apartment’s studio; friends often gather at
the kitchen table to drink wine and chat.
Right: the living room walls are lined with
artworks, including a drawing by Pierre
Puvis de Chavannes. Below right: Luisa
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