Jean Touitou, the model’s founder, credit A.P.C.’s collective method to his personal early days in Kenzo Takada’s studio. “It was an open place too, even if you happen to have been within the transport division you can meet photographers. I had a dream to recreate this environment,” he remembers. Judith, Jean’s spouse, was the one who introduced Natacha again into the fold for this one-off assortment. “Individuals see me as a brilliant high-end trend individual, but when you recognize me, like Judith does,” says Ramsay-Levi, “you additionally know that I’ve a really human, grounded background, and that I really like fundamentals and the way a lot they can provide area to the wearer.”
On the day we meet, within the tail finish of Paris Style Week, Ramsay-Levi’s outfit aligns together with her self-description. She wears a barn jacket with wear-and-tear marks that recommend she acquired it and realized to adore it lengthy earlier than fashionized variations began turning up on the Loewe and Prada runways. Her denims are A.P.C., naturally, a brand new pair although she nonetheless has her first pair that she purchased as a teen and “repaired many occasions.” Her shiny boots extremely recognizable treasures from her Chloé days.
The concept behind the gathering, Ramsay-Levi says, was “to design garments however not make them designed. You may make it as a uniform for your self—loud sufficient to carry you however nameless sufficient to not eat you.” She began with denim, altering the model’s acquainted proportions or including a drawstring to a waistband, and moved on to model icons like the ditch, swapping out the buttons for a moto jacket zipper or slicing it on the waist. The most important interruptions within the interplay, the place you may see Ramsay-Levi’s hand most clearly, are the studded and grommeted sandals and belts, t-shirts bearing photograph prints of her personal torso, like a self-portrait, and a nuts-and-bolts pendant necklace within the form of a girl’s signal that recollects a few of the collectible jewellery she made at Chloé. Jean is happy with the outcomes. “I’m at all times pissed off at A.P.C. to do what I’m purported to do,” he says, “and Natacha comes from a extra edgy, conceptual space, so I’m pleased to have anyone are available in and fiddle a bit of bit.”
