The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2020 - Issue 27

Cristina Lloyd delves into the creative world of French fashion designer Julie de Libran and her collection of couture and ready-to-wear dresses. bite fashion L ibran de J ulie A lthough fashion designer Julie de Li- bran was born in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, it wasn’t until she moved to San Diego, USA at a young age with her family in 1980 that she fell in love with fashion. By the time she became a teenager, she was turning her first sketches into dresses which were made by local seamstresses, in- cluding her first piece of clothing; a dress she designed at the age of 14 to wear to her high school dance because she couldn’t find a suita- ble one elsewhere. This is perhaps the reason why she said, “There’s something about a dress: it’s the gar- ment that really reflects how a woman feels The Perfect Dress Designer Profile

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