(Photo credits Anne-Charlotte Moulard)

Recently received at the Grande Librairie d’Augustin Trapenard to present “ The Free Shooters ", her new book (Editions Anne Carrière) dedicated to the surrealist artist and great resistance fighter Claude Cahun, Emmanuelle Hutin is one of the contemporary authors to follow. After many years at the house of Chanel, this expert in French elegance Today he divides his time between his passion for fashion and his writing projects. Enough to inspire us at the start of this year.

Surrealism and Claude Cahun

I fell into surrealism about fifteen years ago. First because each surrealist discovery made me smile like a child in front of the fantasy-stupidity of another. Then I embraced everything: absolute love, their libertarian and emancipatory vision of the human being, their imagination which tends to become a surreality, their poetry which reconciles action and dream, the wonder of nature… In this surrealist kingdom, Claude Cahun is my king.queen. A multidisciplinary artist, his life and his resistance are like his works: free, iconoclastic, absolute!

Dries Van Noten's Fashion

I have infinite admiration for Dries Van Noten, for the accuracy of his vision of femininity and masculinity that play with limits while remaining in their essence. His inspirations have no boundaries and yet his collections never fall into exoticism. I like that they synthesize elsewhere with the Fashion Western urban, with that nonchalant elegance so characteristic of its silhouettes. It would be so beautiful a world where we were all dressed in Dries Van Noten. But perhaps it is better that it remains an exception that stops the eyes and the heart when we come across it?

Hands

Hands fascinate me. I stare at them when someone speaks to me, instead of looking them in the eyes. I track them in paintings, photos, films. Recently I saw some very beautiful ones in Ribera's paintings exhibited at the Petit Palais. I love all hands. The sticky hands of children, the calloused hands from physical work, the hands with painted nails, the hands with gnarled fingers from having lived so much, the hands stained with ink. I love hands that do, that say no, hands that create, that caress, hands that dance, that tense, hands that write, that show, hands that massage, that receive. In yoga, they are said to be associated with the symbolic heart. Maybe that's also why I love wearing clothes with handmade details, like embroidery. An impression of wearing a little of the hearts of others.

The engravings of Gregory Morizeau

I discovered engraving through the artist Grégory Morizeau. Even though I now know his work well, his creative process is still very mysterious to me. I have trouble recognizing engraving in its materials that are both mineral and organic, where the contours of a head are repeated while fading. We no longer know if the papers were torn off or on the contrary glued under a press, if it is the bark of a birch tree or an advertising poster. And what I love is that Gregory Morizeau, when he exhibits his work, allows us to discover it with our fingertips. (The work, not the artist!)

Nina Simone

I listen to Nina Simone on repeat. Always. And I know I will never get tired of her. Whether she is in love, melancholic, joyful, angry, I become Nina Simone when I listen to her. I am Nina Simone. Every cell in my body vibrates with her emotion. She put a spell on me.

Greek and Indian mythology

As a child, I was frightened by the cruelty of the gods. Today, each myth seems to me like an invitation to push the limits of my identity and to take into account all my facets, even the darkest. The perfect antidote to the injunction to become "the best version of yourself"! My BBF is Persephone, the one who lives between the underworld and the surface. In other words, who navigates between the invisible and matter, between periods of inner listening and periods of realizations turned towards others. She is free in constraint and deeply connected to her desires. All contemporary interpretations of mythology enchant me. Like the series Kaos (Netflix) with Jeff Goldblum awesome as Zeus! Or less literally the books " Believe in the marvelous » by Christophe Ono-dit-Biot and « Opium » for Ovid by Yoko Tawada.

Vintage

This year, I discovered two ultra-complementary gems. The auction house specializing in fashion, Penelope's, created by Penelope Blanckaert who has a very good eye and taste. I just bought a purple silk blouse there at an Yves Saint Laurent sale. I plan to wear it with one of the Levi's found at Numéro Deux. The founder, Chloe Pasqueletto, receives you by appointment in a pretty apartment to show you her jeans found all over the place.