Modepass interviewed one of our peticular member : Philomel :

-What message would you pass with your collections ?

“The fashion world seems to be another world, one even more complex than the one we live in.
i think of fashion as an identity or an indulgence.

So far it seems we cannot get enough of being a child and play, so indulgence better defines us. someday perhaps, if that is to be, we will move onto the dynamics of identity.
for us now, as adults, it is creating a little rabbit hole of escape.
each collection is really a capsule of many ideas that goes a little like this: “Now I Am A…”

It is also a capsule because we get bored too soon and begin another ‘capsule’, another rabbit hole…”

-Philomel, is there any causes you want to fight for ?

“Children and their education, for children to be able to be children (not be forced into anything), and for their education to be free and accessible.”
-Do you feel yourself different ?

“Many times i wish i could say no.”

-All Modepass team is attracted by your profil, you succeed to charm us with your photographies and your profil… Do you consider yourself as an artist, mischievous, sensitive, combative, daring or an other personnality ?

“I dare not be sure of myself in anything. that’s both my weakness and my strength.
i suppose that makes me schizophrenic.

I do not think i could be an artist, because i am too easily bored. even in whimsical or deconstructed art there is onerous force throughout. i lack that consistency i believe.

More than anything, i often think i am an old spirit.”

-How do you describe yourself ?

“An old spirit.
Soft-hearted.

An old spirit can be a child, right?”

-If you can realize a dream, which one will it be ?

“I am learning that i need to make rent to realize any dream.
so dream 1 is to sell and have stores stock my designs in unexpected little places around the world; dream 2 is to build a network to help bring street children together for education, thus providing true shelter.”

-Describe your brand : « I never promise you » in few words…

“The name is a borrowing from Joanne Greenberg’s novel of the same time. an extract below is quite telling:

“I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice and I never promised you peace or happiness.
My help is that so you can be free to fight for all of these things.
The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable.
I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie… and a bore too!”

-What is your role in this brand ? fashion designer ? muse ?

“The hardest question so far. designer.

INPYARG is the partnership of two people, and her role is in the production and rational side of things, as well as the everyday motivation to be both productive and ridiculous simultaneously.”

-Where you inspiration come from ?

“Dreams, poetry, street life everywhere, memory’s neuroses and i suspect, sex.”

-Who is wearing your brand ? what is she/he looks like ?

“We make and make and do nothing to ‘advertise’ our designs. we know we are not good business people at all.
This interview is the closest to advertising !”

-Why you keeping your nails short ?

“I don’t like them to get in the way of anything i do, drawing, riding a bicycle…
I like to pretend i am both Tarzan and Jane at once, can’t you tell? :) “

-How many tatoos have you ?

“Two. The ones on the head and one on my hip.”