Stephane rolland designer biography

The designer’s favorite sculpture remains the “Victoire de Samothrace,” which he first saw as a child in the Louvre Museum.

“When you see her, she seems to be moving forward with her wings in her back, and there is this feeling of a surge as if she’s giving herself. There is a generosity in the movement that I love.

Stephane rolland designer biography

At the same time, she seems to be letting go. It’s what I like in this sculpture, it has a real fragility, and then of course there is also the drape of her skirt,” he explains.

The inspiration from this sculpture can often be seen in Rolland’s creations as the designer often creates a wing effect in his designs through the use of long fluid sleeves and light capes that billow in the wind.

“I guess it’s this idea of flying away and escape,” he muses.

Over the years, Rolland has also found inspiration in the round sensual sculptures of Anish Kapoor, the curved angles of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto’s modernist