I grew up in Ukraine. My mother was an engineer and my father an architect. They were always very well dressed. I went through a hippie phase as a teenager, when I really got into The Beatles and The Doors, but I quickly realized that my favorite...
I grew up in Cannes, and a few years after becoming a soccer pro, I found this curated boutique right next door to me that imported diffusion lines by big Italian labels like Just Cavalli, D&G and Versus. I spent quite a lot on clothes over the...
I’ve been in the world of fashion all my life. In the 1980s, my grandparents had a shirt brand called Le Garage. Prince, Rod Stewart and David Bowie all wore Le Garage shirts. Then my parents set up Paul & Joe in the mid-90s. They used to dress...
When I was 14, I was desperate for a pair of Nikes. My mother didn’t want to buy them new, so she told me to go to Emmaüs [a French thrift shop]. I did – and what I found there was actually way better. The first garment I ever bought secondhand...
My way of dressing has developed through the friends I’ve made and the people I’ve met. Martin’s the first person I ever talked with about fashion. In 10th grade, we were the only two kids geeking out about clothes, obsessing over the style of...
I was an avid film buff in my teens, and one day, in a secondhand store in Spain, it dawned on me that I could dress like a character from Casino or Goodfellas. I started sourcing clothes for my buddies and then began to sell them at the Saint...
I used to spend nearly four months of the year with my grandparents, who raised me like a child of the Sixties. My grandfather was a factory director, but he always wore the classic blue French worker's uniform, and my grandmother dressed in...