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OUT OF OFFICE | SIMONE ROCHAHow do you take your cofee?
Black with ice. On a doily. Anyone
who spends a bit of time with me
leaves knowing how to crochet.
When did you irst realise that
you were creative?
I was never going to do anything
academic, but it was probably when
I went to art college in Dublin and
one of the tutors persuaded me to
take the fashion module. I did my
project on nurses. I printed all these
images of how they used to make
the old nurses’ hats and wondered
whether I could make skirts out of
that type of construction. My brain
just started working. I realised then
that that was how I could make
emotion, through clothes.
Who’s been your bigest inluence?
I’ve always been obsessed with
Louise Bourgeois. Sadly she died
before I got the chance to meet her,
but I do a lot of work with her
foundation. I’ve done printed matter
with Bourgeois images in it, and
there are some of her pieces in my
store on Wooster Street in New York.
Your work always tells a story.
Where do you ind your stories?
It comes from something personal.
For one collection, I was in Japan,
I was pregnant, and there was cherry
blossom everywhere. I felt out of
place and I started the collection
from that feeling. At Château
La Coste in Provence (W*214), I saw
this amazing Louise Bourgeois
spider on the wall. I made some
of her shapes into embroidery.
Who do you design for?
My last winter collection, Marching
Roses, was based around the concept
of strong women and I wanted all
diferent types of women to embody
that. It comes from the clothes. It’s
not like ‘OK, I need Kate Moss.’
Who would you most like to
collaborate with?
I would love to work with Astier
de Villatte as I love their plates. I like
working with my husband, too
[cinematographer Eoin McLoughlin].
We made a ilm with photographer
Jackie Nickerson two years ago
in Zambia, called Patchwork, Work.BODIL BLAIN
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