Meeting Juliette was a very rich experience. She likes to talk about her work and she has been really supportive during the launch of this website. To conclude this interview, here are more personal questions about her projects, her love of jewels and her opinion about her professional activity.
Can you name three of your favorite designers?
I admire a lot of designers, we are numerous. The first ones are : Espèces Jewelry, Charlotte Martyr, Monocrafft and Regina Dabdab.
© Amel Kerkeni
Do you have favorite jewels? What is their story?
My favorite jewel is a ring my father offered to my mother when they met.
In white gold and sapphire, it is very contemporary and Japanese. He found it in New York, the designer is Kyo or Kio, I can’t read the inscription and I have never been able to find the designer…
What are the two main qualities to be a good jewelry designer?
Technique and determination. For now, I am not a jeweler, I am only a jewelry designer and I lack skills to realize some of my ideas. In this field, learning is infinite. Determination is important because there are MANY designers.
What would you advise to a new designer?
To learn, in many fields (textile, metal, ceramic, crimp, management, marketing, etc.) and to be curious.
© Adam Peter Johnson
Is there a jewel – made by another designer – you would have loved to create ?
The wood and resin bracelet by Maison Martin Margiela but there are many others!
What are your projects?
Some travels and different courses.
© Quentin Collas
How do you approach designers to ask them to teach you some techniques?
Jewelers are not always easy to contact. The field is not closed but there are so many new designers on the market that jewelers and craftsmen can sometimes be suspicious. It is a slightly secret world, it is the big family of jewelers. It is hard to approach them but I am now able to obtain some contacts and meet open-minded people.
They don’t want to train me but they accept to meet me to teach me some stuff. In exchange, I provide services, I just want to learn.
I don’t steal ideas because I already got my own, I just lack technical skills. Anyway, their knowledge is not a secret anymore, unfortunately. We are part of a world where everything is quickly transmitted. I just want to work with craftsmen who have known everything for the past 40 years and have many secrets!
Why this job?
I know where I go every morning when I wake up. Not everyone can say the same thing. It is rewarding because I make stuff with my hands. It works or it doesn’t but, anyway, I’ve made it. Knowing where I go, maybe not how nor how fast but I know where I go. I am very stressful about the future.
Which designer would you like to see on L’Envers du Décor soon?
Espèces Jewelry and Monocrafft!!
Thank you Juliette.
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Crédits photos : photographies publiées avec l’autorisation de Juliette Laloë © L . J sauf mentions suivantes : © Quentin Collas, quentincollas.be;
© Amel Kerkeni, amelkerkeni.com ou © Adam Peter Johnson
