Portrait

Thursday 23rd June, 5 cité de la Roquette, 75011 Paris

Steffie Christiaens acquired her experience and her savoir-faire at Maison Martin Margiela and Balenciaga between 2007 and 2010. She soon set up her studio in Paris to pursue her own conceptual approach in her menswear and womenswear prêt-à-porter collections. She studied at the prestigious Arnhem Academy in the Netherlands and at the Institut Français de la Mode in France. She was a finalist at the Festival de Hyères in 2009. The "organic" aspect of her designs is linked to the natural curves of the body and provokes a dialogue between two convergent fields: art and fashion.