At this time, we meet up with the inventive duo Michele Solecki and Noa , a mother-daughter workforce from France and Junior Type contributors. They are going to quickly head to Paris to cowl the Playtime Paris commerce present for us. Let’s get to know them!
Michele Solecki, an architect’s assistant and freelance photographer, and her proficient daughter Noa, a 13-year-old exploring numerous inventive careers. Their journey into the world of children’ trend started practically 4 years in the past when Noa, at simply 9 years previous, expressed a need to change into a mannequin. What began as a mom supporting her daughter’s aspirations shortly developed right into a shared ardour and profitable collaboration.
Michele’s eager eye for pictures and Noa’s pure appeal in entrance of the digital camera created fascinating picture tales that caught the eye of family and friends. Inspired by the constructive suggestions, Michèle started taking up extra initiatives, main them to thrilling collaborations with numerous youngsters’ trend manufacturers. Their distinctive mix of creativity, dedication, and real love for the artwork of pictures has made Michèle and Noa a dynamic pair on the earth of kids’s trend. They shortly caught the editor’s eye at Junior Type and have become contributors.
We look ahead to their insights and tales from Playtime Paris.
Playtime Paris will happen June 29-July1, 2024.
JS: Inform us your story.
Michele: I’ll reply for each of us. Our journey started virtually 4 years in the past when Noa, on the age of 9, expressed a need to change into a mannequin. I began taking her to varied shoots, castings, and collaborations. I shortly bought hooked and, utilizing my pictures abilities, started creating picture tales with Noa. Buddies beloved my work and began asking me to {photograph} them, and it snowballed from there. Now, we cowl occasions like PITTI BIMBO and ILOVEPLAYTIME and collaborate with a number of fantastic manufacturers.
JS: Why do you get pleasure from working with youngsters?
Michele: Photographing youngsters is pure magic. Their spontaneity, surprise, and naturalness take me again to my very own childhood. It’s probably not work; I get to play, snigger, and dance with them, and I marvel at their pleasure.
JS: To what do you attribute your success?
Michele: I’m flattered you’re asking about my success, however actually, I don’t actually give it some thought. For me, a photoshoot isn’t full with out laughter, emotion, or a foolish face contest. Perhaps that’s the key, if there’s one.
JS: What are your favourite youngsters’s trend manufacturers?
Michele: The manufacturers that talk to me evoke nostalgia: holidays in Brittany, the seaside, browsing, household gatherings, occasion preparations, wet walks, and my youngsters’s births. I see these recollections within the creations of KELLY KILBY, BOBO CHOSES, FRANGIN FRANGINE, LISON PARIS, ARSENE ET LES PIPELETTES, TOCOTO VINTAGE, and JOIA BIJOU, amongst others. Noa loves MEET MARIE, YUKO.B, INDEE, THE NEW SOCIETY, ANIMAL OBSERVATORY, L’ANISE, ZHURIKIDS and LES GRIGRIS DE VILIE. We additionally get pleasure from second-hand outlets that give new life to those collections. In Marseille, we love looking LOOP, KILO SHOP, and extra.
JS: What do you concentrate on social media?
Michele: Social media is a supply of communication and inspiration for everybody. For professionals, it’s additionally a showcase platform for his or her work and abilities. Nonetheless, it’s essential to maintain a wholesome distance and never change into too depending on it.
JS: What do you concentrate on bodily occasions and networking? Is it essential to you?
Michele: I’ve just lately began attending these occasions. Regardless of being very shy, I get pleasure from assembly professionals, studying about their tales and passions, and savoring every second.
JS: Who’s your trend icon, previous or current?
Michele: Noa, in fact (laughs), and her grandmother along with her stitching machine! Additionally, the beautiful girls of my youth like Kate Moss, Laetitia Casta, Naomi Campbell, and proficient designers like Coco Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and Jacquemus. Magnificence and aesthetics are in all places. We’re all icons and muses in our personal approach. I don’t have one single icon however many, as magnificence is in all the pieces if we all know tips on how to see and improve it.
JS: What’s your favourite place on the earth?
Michele: Since she was little, Noa has known as it the “Subject of Unicorns,” an unlimited meadow hidden within the forests of Auvergne. Each summer time, we go there to look at clouds, take heed to birds and bugs, and find yourself rolling down the meadow endlessly.
JS: You can be attending Playtime Paris as a consultant of Junior Type for the second time. Are you excited? What’s your favourite a part of the job?
Michele: We will’t wait to find the present and symbolize Junior Type, meet the manufacturers and designers we’ve adopted on social media, see their new collections and inspirations, and share their enthusiasm.
JS: What do you’re keen on most concerning the Junior Type platform?
Michele: Junior Type is a global reference within the trend world, serving to us uncover developments, creators, occasions, and fashions, all with a really human contact.
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