Kevin Germanier is Swiss.
He repeats it often enough in conversation for it to be noted.
"I am Swiss, I grew up in Switzerland and I always lived in Switzerland until I was 18
," says the young man, in the introduction, seated in his small Parisian studio in the gentrified Sentier.
My story is quite “cliché”.
I've always wanted to do fashion.
As a child, I draped scraps of fabric over my little brother, my big sister was my human doll.
Pictures of me show me at age 3 making her a princess dress out of a bath towel.
But I never told my parents that I wanted to be a fashion designer because there were no famous examples in Switzerland!
It was better to say that I wanted to be an architect.
Over the years, I said product designer and finally, fashion designer.
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From the shy little boy from Granges (in Valais), son of a former soldier converted to insurance and a mother secretary, to the acclaimed stylist behind...
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