SABINE BARDON

After training in contemporary dance with Dominique Dupuy (founder of the Ballets Modernes in France in the 50s) and studying applied arts at the Duppéré school in Paris, Izar decided to return to Tunisia with a desire to get closer to know-how and its direct impact on local social life. She became interested in gesture and materials, renewing her relationship with the intelligence of the hand.

The textile designer's research is driven by the need to trace the many stages in the making of a weave, which are so many layers that contribute to the constitution of an identity, and to reconstruct the history of a garment as a second skin.

From ancient know-how, she extracts the essential, the raw gesture that leads her to work on irregularity, porosity and touch. For the past ten years or so, she has been using wool gauze as a light filter and is passionate about hand-dyeing, creating ranges of colors that are both sober and magnetic. She is interested in texture, the movement of color and protean garments.

A few dates:

2004: "Empreintes" exhibition at Unesco Paris

Between 2005 and 2009: collaborates with Maison Hermès, creating unique pieces for the brand's various showcases.

2008: research into dyeing led her to create color ranges for Studio de Tendances Li Edelkoort in Paris. The same year, she designed textiles for Bérénice at Les Bouffes du Nord in Paris, under the direction of costume designer Chloé Obolensky. Directed by Lambert Wilson;

2009 : creates original jewelry for A. Kechiche's film, "La Vénus noire". Carte Blanche at Le Bon Marché in Paris.
Her collections are sold at Caravane Paris.

2011: in residence at the Maison de la Mode in Marseille

2013: Exhibition at the Institut de Monde Arabe with photographer Diana Lui "L'Envers des Corps" ("The Upside of Bodies")

2014: Her brand is sold at Terence Conran Shop , London and Tokyo.

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