Laurent Guyot

Born at the beginning of the 1960s, I grew up lulled by rock and roll and soul-music.
I was ten years old when I accompanied my father for the first time, geared up in US jeans, to the cluttered and noisy alleys of the MALIK market, the Clignancourt flea markets.

It was immediately love at first sight for this ambiance and its folks always striving to find a rare piece.

Even at that time I could already stay there for hours admiring the elongated curves of a Texan or Mexican boot.

It was therefore totally natural that, when a few years later I was looking for a week-end job, I headed for this mythical place, considered at that time as one of the best areas for fashion and second-hand clothes (vintage), equally well-known around the world for its antiquarians and other dealers in antiques, bric-à-brac and second hand goods, the same who instilled in me the love for patina.

At the same time, I became integrated into a school for automobile prototype designers, more attracted, I must admit, to the aesthetic rather than to the mechanical side and with the aim of satisfying my passion for wedding curves and colours.

At the age of 21, wishing to get more familiar with the world of customized clothes and big sizes, I entered into one of the most famous Parisian fashion houses, thus reinforcing my inclination towards unique and tailor-made pieces.