Atlein Designer Antonin Tron reflects on life during the crisis.
Currently, I am on what was meant to be a vacation from Paris and my label, Atlein, in Ile de Ré—to go to a place I love most and to surf for 10 days. We have now been here since the eighth of March because the French government announced the lockdown . Neither my partner, Gabriele, nor I can go back home to Paris. We are confined with my parents in our family house.
“We are all being asked to refocus,” says Antonin Tron. “Nature is asking us to stop and reconsider.”Yet, for me, I can’t help but think that a lot of positive things are going to come out of this. I understand I am saying this from a privileged point of view. I think of all the people for whom confinement is literally hell or impossible—countries where the impact will be devastation and families who grieve their loved ones.
So this is what I do: I am a dressmaker, not an artist. I drape, and I start thinking about shapes and constructions. It makes me feel calm and peaceful to spend time manipulating fabric and to create something with my own hands. And there’s also this idea about slow process. Designers don’t really drape anymore—there is no time, and it is so time-consuming. It’s the hand and the fabric and nothing in between—a very physical process.
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