Our design team
Martine Leherpeur
(Professor at the French Fashion Institute and iconic figure in the fashion world)
"I have been participating in the Soieries du Mékong adventure for two years. I met beautiful people there, a love of beauty and goodness, honesty and responsibility.
Around co-creation, the entire Design team is passionate about this committed choice of manufacturing products at a human pace with absolute respect for the artisans and their unique know-how.
Finally, Soieries du Mekong is a real plea for a new luxury which today makes terrible sense."
Learn more about Martine here
Coco Hellein
(Textile and color expert, “Enthusiastic designer”)
“I was seduced by Soieries du Mékong. It seemed right and obvious to me to share my know-how as a color designer for a committed and supportive brand.
This teamwork of developing harmonic ranges and graphic compositions is a new challenge and a fragile balance between the technical constraints linked to dyeing and artisanal weaving and contemporary design.
I like to think that this sharing of skills between sales manager, stylist, designer and weavers is a Women’s Story. And that this production of stoles and scarves promises autonomy to Mekong artisans and access to school for their children”
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Sophie Hykes
(Textile designer, materials, colors)
"For 10 years, I passionately accompanied the extraordinary development of Soieries du Mékong on the design side, taking care to highlight all the richness of hand weaving and that of noble and natural materials, with the complicity of the colorists and weavers from Banteay Chhmar, and thus offer ever richer and more varied collections to our customers.
This collaboration was a magnificent textile and human journey, the memory and lessons of which I treasure today."
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