
Text & Textile — 13
In my father family, I heard about the correspondence of my great-grandparents. Dozens of love letters written before they got married, from 1925 to 1927. I never asked to see these letters, maybe I imagined old, poorly preserved, illegible relics; it was to underestimate the admiration of my family for this correspondence, more particularly from my grandfather, who carefully photocopied and filed by date the letters for all the members of the family, grandchildren included. Each member of the family has a box.
Jeanne and Victor accompanied me in the creation of the bridal collection. Carried away by the delicacy of their exchanges and the thousand and one detours taken to write "I love you", I returned to their correspondence as soon as I had a moment...