After getting her fashion designer degree from the prestigious Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, Nadège LUDINANT became in turns a manager, an adviser, a trendsetter, a fashion photographs stylist…

She turned toward creation in 2008.

The 20s and 30s, Japanese prints, the Renaissance, the Russia of the Czars…this is where her inspiration comes from.

Her purpose is to give a second life to the treasures of the French couture heritage.

Lace, fur, trimmings, embroidery, are the common threads to her unique pieces.

Her creations are timeless, entirely handmade and embroidered : an  hymn to feminity.

Her first collection named «Like a Czar» was first presented at the Parisian eventApocalypse in 2009.

Her special feature is to make reversible creations.She hunts out «treasures», recycles, transforms and customizes them into unique models in both daytime and evening versions.

Creation in every fashion (haute couture) !

Let’s discover her work !

www.nadegeludinantcouture.com

www.lunashoo.com

See you soon!

Mademoiselle Viviane-Lucie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our ten Lovely questions:

 1. What were the upbeats of your career ?

August 1985… when I arrived in Paris at the age of 12 after spending my childhood on the French Riviera. It is at that time that I decided to become a fashion designer.

From September 1994 to June 1997…

And I never changed my mind until I entered l’Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, one of the most prestigious fashion design school in France, I was really lucky to be warmly encouraged by my parents.

 January 1998

 The opening of Emporio Armani Flag-ship in Paris, St Germain-des-Près.

My first job in the retailing business ; one of the most beautiful human adventure in my career, the one that gave me the taste for selling and merchandising and taught me how it all worked.

Febrary 2006

When I met a couple of enthusiastic businessman and woman who gave me the opportunity to find my way within their company, a multi-brand store of upmarket design accessories, in Paris .

The confidence they had put in me and our great complicity enabled me to become a manager, a visual-merchandiser and a purchaser within a few months.

Transparency, exchange, freedom and independence in this priviliged relationship with my bosses were our motto.

THE best adventure in my career as an employee.

As I could have expected, it has since been impossible for me to find such enjoyable relationship at work and above all… I found it impossible to go back to working in companies where the stress, the pursuit of results and productivity make your life hell.

In a delicate situation, you need to find appropriate answers… Switzerland was one of them.

 Since February 2011

Which has enabled me to devote my time to creation. My brand mark, when I am not at the store I work in now, Portobellomarket, in Lausanne : a real Aladdin’s cave where you can dig out stylish vintage treasures.

 2.What are your sources of inspiration?

The world of the 1920s and 1930s, Art Deco, Japanese printing, Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Russian Czars, Ancient Persia, Portuguese Azuelos…

More generally, all my travels and my readings.

 3. You feel close to…

Mademoiselle Coco Chanel and all the adventurous women who left their names in History.

 4. Your favourite works of art …

L’Etranger by Camus

Mme Bovary by Flaubert

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

The work of the  Marquis de Sade

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzche

L’Alchimiste by Paolo Coehlo 

Electro-music from Berlin and Detroit

Classical music and Jazz

 5. A magic place for you

The countryside around Nice and the Roya Valley where I spent my childhood.

The land of Bali and the Island of Gilli Air in Indonesia.

 6. Your favourite moment in the day

Breakfast and brunch. 

When I am at home watching a good movie after a hard day at work

 7. A sentence or an expression that moves you

There is no love, only demonstrations of love.(Jean Cocteau)

 8. You have a soft spot for…

Little cakes called Cannelés (a speciality from Bordeaux)

The pissalladière which is pastry flan with onion, anchovy and black olives, a speciality from Nice.

The traditional Daube from Provence, a meat stew speciality.

 9. Do you collect something?

Shoes ! And now furs !!!

 10. What are your plans for the future?

To develop NADEGE LUDINANT COUTURE, there are so many things I crave to do, so many ideas…. And to find love !

 In what way do you find Lovely Surprise® inspiring?

 I love surprises. I have always loved boxes whatever their size, there’s often a treasure inside, a NLC creation for instance !