The designer duo behind Egon Lab discuss their unlikely muses.
Designers Florentin Glémarec and Kevin Nompeix make clothes that start conversations and hold a mirror to society.With a collection full of nipple-baring corsets and deeply sacrilegious cassocks, the French fashion label Egon Lab appears outré to the extreme. But to hear designers Florentin Glémarec and Kevin Nompeix tell it, their two year old brand is really all about family.
Adorable? Absolutely. But if you think their story couldn’t get any sweeter, you clearly haven’t seen Egon Lab’s muses-cum-brand ambassadors: a pair of white-haired, proudly punk octogenarians named Marie-Louise and René Glémarec, who happen to be Florentin’s grandparents.
“For us, that was an inspiration,” says Nompeix. “And for the grandparents, it was nostalgia. They were super happy to have these kinds of clothes. We said, ‘Are you sure you want to wear this?’ And they said, ‘Yes! We love it!’”Glémarec and Nompeix, who are often labeled menswear designers but consider their creations truly “genderless,” first collaborated in a different facet of the fashion world.
Their first collection, for spring 2020, was inspired by the “concept of resistance” and mixed graffiti-inspired zebra stripes with finger-length metal spikes and trench coat suits in Marie Antoinette’s favorite pattern: toile de Jouy.
“I think we have the responsibility to fight for our generation, to create a strong message through our garments,” says Nompeix, who, like Glémarec, is still in his mid-twenties. “We want to give our community a tool to express themselves. What’s avant garde in fashion now is to use clothes to talk about society.”
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