I am not working with Sakina M'sa currently, but after we met last Jan and July, we kept communicating with facebook and she invited me to her show once she knew that I was visiting Paris this time.
I guess we are the same age, but clearly we had a totally different background.
Her parents immigrated from Africa to France, and her mom worked as a maid when she was young. Her parents speak but can not write nor read French. This background made her study so hard at the school and read a lot of books. She had read many Japanese literatures like Mishima, Kawabata and Tanizaki.
She was fond of designing and dress making, and one day she made and showed a very original dress at a contest, and won a big applause. Then she received a educational fund to study at an art school. This is how she started her career.
The dress that made her what she is now....was a dress patch-worded a worn and torn old cleaning cloths she found at the school, and the turn out was outrageously good looking.
The story is so cool, and I was so touched and almost shed tears.
I hope one day in the future we work together.
Sakina M'sa 2011 spring & summer collection
Her show can be seen at the link below, and you can find me among the guests.
Défilé Sakina M’sa : sur le podium et dans les coulisses
by izukuranaoto | 2011-01-30 13:55
