Margaux is one of those women who inspires us at Alaena. A multi-talented artist, she transports us through her music, photographs, writing, and, above all, her emotions.
You recently read "Reinventing Love" by Mona Chollet. What impact did this book have on you?
Always with accuracy, intelligence and finesse, she dissects love and relationships under the influence of social conditioning, through culture, history, representations... She accompanies her research with telling examples, while leaving room for the reader to form their own opinion by qualifying their own. With touching sincerity, she delivers her own story with intimacy and does not hold back from exposing her own contradictions, between committed convictions and everyday reality... Then, with nuance again, she gives some keys to understanding, listening, seeing, helping, changing. And it is, for those who wish it, quite salutary: it was for me, as much as possible in any case.
What is your relationship with beauty?
Obviously subjective. It's a word that touches on an almost infinite spectrum of things. But for me, beauty can heal. The beauty of a gesture, the curiosity we have for things.
A childhood memory linked to a perfume, a cream, a transmission of beauty?
I would say the smell of skin heated by summer, linked to sunscreen. It's a scent that has moved me since I was little. It recalls the smell of the hollow of the neck of those we love, the feeling of belonging to this tiny place, of being at home there. It's the smell of embraces. Symbolically, I like the idea of protecting ourselves by caressing our skin, massaging our body with a cream that awakens the senses. It's putting on a soft armor by starting with a moment for ourselves before giving ourselves over to what the day promises.
What does Alaena inspire in you?
Transmission, in fact, notably through the family history of the house.
A mantra?
"The desire to think without nuance constantly distances us from the truth" Simone Veil