PARIS — Belgian model Bernadette is celebrating its fifth birthday by taking up the Petibon cafés in Paris throughout trend week.
The Antwerp-based model from mother-daughter design duo Bernadette and Charlotte de Geyter will arrange in two areas throughout city to showcase its life-style model, which encompasses a full vary of retro-tinged attire and homewares with its signature hand-drawn floral prints.
“We’re celebrating all through the entire 12 months, now this presentation would be the cherry on high,” Charlotte de Geyter advised WWD in an interview.
As an alternative of a standard runway present, the pair settled on the café idea to supply attendees a quiet break from the hectic present schedule.
“We wished to deliver the coziness that’s in my mother’s home to Paris,” de Geyter stated. The takeover will current Bernadette’s cozy idea, with all of the model’s brightly coloured ceramics, together with cups and candlesticks, in addition to tablecloths, napkins, curtains and shades — sans the sartorial facet. As an alternative, it will likely be a peek into Bernadette’s world.
And naturally there might be cake, with particular concoctions courtesy of Paris-based chef Monika Varšavskaja. A number of baked items might be on provide, together with a pink-and-green gâteau with a Speculoos crust created for the event.
A pattern of Bernadette’s colourful ceramics.
The Bernadette model took place after de Geyter graduated from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fantastic Arts. An internship in London shifted her dream of working for a giant model, and she or he returned house to launch the road alongside her mom, the namesake Bernadette. The 2 reference archival items from Bernadette’s closet imbued with Charlotte’s personal prints and sketches for straightforward, female items.
“The model may be very near who we’re. Our strongest level could be that we’re two ladies of various generations, and we talk about what we wish to put on. It’s very female, however in a contemporary manner,” stated de Geyter.
A glance from Bernadette.
Being primarily based in Belgium provides the duo an natural perspective. “Antwerp is a really good cocoon, as a result of we get plenty of time and plenty of house to concentrate on the model,” she stated, including that bringing the label to Paris is a second to ask pals from trend faculty.
“We’re very excited to have a [brand] expertise exterior of photographs and campaigns,” stated de Geyter.
After the café, different experiences and even a runway present might be in Bernadette’s future. “It’s the following step for the model,” stated de Geyter. Bernadette launched bridal and brooches earlier this 12 months and is offered in Le Bon Marché and Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
The Bernadette takeover might be in two areas at 24 Rue de 4 Septembre, within the 2nd arrondissement, and 47 Rue Cler in Paris’ seventh from Sept. 24 to Oct. 2.
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