Modem profile
Discover the universe of Mal-Aimée and fashion designers Léonie Hostettler & Marius Borgeaud, through their Modem Web Profile: portraits, biographies, origins, images, marketing campaigns and contacts.
Léonie and Marius were born in Geneva, Switzerland. They met in the workshops of the Haute École d’Art et de Design in Geneva and moved to Paris in 2006 when they joined the Nina Ricci fashion house. Beginning as interns in the Studio, they very quickly moved up in the team to important posts, and ended up becoming the two first creative assistants to Olivier Theyskens, artistic director at the time.
For almost two years Léonie and Marius, always working as a team of two, assisted Olivier Theyskens throughout the process of creating collections, from the first sketches to the final creations. In addition to their work as assistants, Léonie and Marius designed all of the collections of prints, jacquards and embroidery.
When Olivier Theyskens left Nina Ricci in 2009, the pair seized the opportunity to strike out on their own and create their own brand, Mal-Aimée.
