Prototype
First, there is the “JANUE, the prototype”: the cuts that make us think and feel. The balmy touch of a memory we cherish, the shape yielded by an instant we remember and that haunts us in future creations. They constitute the memory of the house, its own history, somewhere between the cut patterns and the actual collections, more of artworks than as series. In rare cases, a prototype never becomes more than that and in that case, it is a unique piece.