Conversation With Marie: Part Two

How It All Started

How did you start your career in fashion?

I wouldn’t say my story is very straightforward, it was a life journey. It started with a passion, that became a hobby, which then grew into so much more: it’s something I’ve always wanted to do.

In my twenties, I was trying to figure out the way to do it, where I wanted to work, what medium in fashion I wanted to take. Fashion to me is an artistic way of expressing myself; it’s not for the love of fashion just as clothes, it’s a form of art for me. I chose resort-wear, lifestyle and swimwear purely because they represented my favorite lifestyle, the one I like to live and I’m inspired by.

When did design your first bikini?

I’ve always designed and made bikinis myself from the age of 17 years old, it was the perfect hobby, although of course they weren’t perfect! I was just making them home with the domestic sewing machine:  you really cannot get something nice with that, but you know, that’s how I started. That’s how I trace it back when I wonder “why am I doing swimwear?”. It’s because I remember I loved doing that… I’ve always had lots of swimwear and beachwear, because I travel a lot and I lived in a beach country, on a beach, that was a different kind of experience.

That was Tel Aviv, right?

Yes! I would wake up, go to the beach, wear my bikini, my little shorts, a t-shirt, flip-flops and I would walk on the beach, do my sport, have a coffee with a friend. That’s how I used to start my day: that lifestyle, of course, is still in my heart, it’s something I want to go back to, at some point. Obviously London is a place where you have to be for professional reasons, if you want to be creative. At some point if you want to enter this crazy business, it doesn’t matter if it’s photography, fashion, art, you have to pass through Paris, London and New York. But ideally I’d like to live in Ibiza or somewhere like that, have a bit of a different lifestyle and be based in between. That’s exactly what I would want to do, have my own beach boutique in which I would be selling lifestyle pieces, including swimwear.