I spent the whole summer looking for a company that would hire me as an apprentice, that’s how I began the first two years of my career, living in a motel room and working for a Chanel subcontractor. The work was quite repetitive, and my schedule was intense: six weeks at work, then two weeks at trade school for two years, traveling 900 km one way by train to Marseille.

For me nostalgia represents that exquisite and delicate combination of happiness and sadness, where memories are evoked by a smell or a postcard or a dream.

The secret really is that every antique dealer that has ever lived was just a romantic hoarder with a shopping addiction. 

It’s in the “scarpetta” the act of mopping up every last drop of tomato juice, oil and salad dressing with a crusty piece of bread.