“IT WAS A REAL PAIN WITH MY LONG HAIR…“

“I got the idea for the snap cardigan because of the gray sweatshirt I’m wearing in the ID photo. Or rather, thanks to this gray sweatshirt. I loved it, but I hated taking it off – it was a real pain with my long hair. A couple of journalists wrote that I had cut it with scissors, but that’s not true. I think I still have it somewhere. That’s why I made a jersey cardigan with snaps: so that I could undo it easily: snap, snap, snap. I wanted the snaps to be very close together and for there to be lots of them because it reminded me of the soldiers’ uniforms you see the officers at the Château de Versailles wearing in old prints. Don’t forget that I grew up in Versailles. This was 1979, and it took off straight away. I couldn’t tell you how many we’ve sold since then, but it’s a fair amount…”