As a young boy in art class, Nabil Hayari was told by his teacher to draw whatever he wanted. As Hayari explains, “My friend drew trucks – and I drew gowns,” a harbinger of his career as a French couturier. Hayari’s grandmother … Read More
For Proust, it was the scent of linden-flower tea (and a brown butter madeleine) that took him back to his childhood and his meeting with Baron de Charlus, one of fiction’s most aristocratic aesthetes. In a similar vein, French couture … Read More
Olfactory memory takes you home, which for Parisian couture designer Nabil Hayari is the fragrance of the Atlas Mountains. Stretching across Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, the mountains are home to a number of plant species unique to Africa, including the … Read More
