Éric cantona

Ex-footballer, actor

He has been centre forward and centre stage and now, more recently, has tried front row. ‘It is art, it’s magnificent. But I thought it went too fast. They walk too fast,’ concludes Cantona of the fashion catwalk, having attended one of his friend Bouchra Jarrar’s shows while she was artistic director at Lanvin. He joins Wallpaper* in conversation with Jarrar on page 140, and talks fashion, football, art and the challenges of acting in Croatian and Chinese.