Marie Christophe

Marie Christophe was born in Strasbourg, 44 years ago. She studied in Paris at the ESAG, the Met de Pennighem and at the ATEP.
After her studies, she carried out an apprenticeship with Lucio Fanti, a painter and stage designer, for the sets of La Traviata, in the Chatelet. Equally attracted by stylism, graphics and theatre set design, she sought her way. During the summer of 1995, she canvassed various shops and offered to design their Christmas windows. One of her first commissions, an ice floe and its penguins, for Victoire, caught the eye of Jean-Louis Dumas, director of Hermès, who asked her to carry out four large horses for the windows of Hermès in Los Angeles. That was nearly 20 years ago.
Since then she has carried out sculptures in wire and undertakes commissions for interior decoration. Her graphic silhouettes are highly appreciated by the fashion and luxury milieux. Marie Christophe exhibited for the first time in En Attendant les Barbares in Paris. Her first exhibition in New York took place at Takashlyama. Marie Christophe lives and works in St Georges, in the Gers.