Natacha Ramsay-Levi wanted to be a historian. She remembers marching against racism through the streets of Paris with her journalist father in the Eighties and how that experience led her to study African history and colonialism later in college to better understand the context of what she was fighting for. “I’ve always believed the best way to evolve is to learn from our past,” she says, her thick French accent piercing through the phone. “To me, there’s always been a link between history and fashion.”
The first thing Ramsay-Levi did when she was appointed creative director of Chloé in 2017—after 15 years as the protégé of Louis Vuitton artistic director of women’s collections Nicolas Ghesquière—was to excavate. Today she is credited for her intellectual, boyish take on Chloé’s bohemian roots,…
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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2020