♥ Do you remember your first aesthetic shock?
Discovering Ancient Egypt, and visiting this fascinating country, with its system of writing in drawings and its temples with painted walls. My first Street Art in a way.

♥ The artist you would like to meet? What would you say to him?
Shepard Fairey of course, to thank him for being such an inspiration for my pop art portraits. We’d chat over a nice Hennessy cognac (he designed the label for the 2014 limited edition, just before I worked for that company in New York).

What is your favourite colour? What does it inspire?
Mustard yellow for its bright, spicy side. Travel, escape, the sun, pretty good sources of inspiration!

♥ Which museum gives you the greatest emotion? Why?
More than a museum, it’s certain exhibitions that fascinated me, like Lichtenstein at Beaubourg, Walt Disney at the Grand Palais, Magritte at the Tuileries. These three painters had a lot of fun in their drawings/paintings, you can feel it, and their art directly touches the big child that I still am.

♥ Which work of art would you buy without hesitation if you had an unlimited budget?
A David Hockney swimming pool, a colourful Picasso, a Warhol Tomato Soup, an original Tintin plate, or Klimt’s Kiss.

♥ In which city do you feel happiest? Why do you think so? Share your 3 favourite addresses.
Quite cosmopolitan, I’ve been lucky enough to live in Paris, Madrid, Reims, Bordeaux, London, New York and Buenos Aires. All these cities are so different and wonderful! In Buenos Aires, the hidden and very rustic Catedral milonga (tango bar) is a must. The Apotheke in New York, a speakeasy cocktail bar hidden in a dirty alley in Chinatown, is a Gastby’s jewel box. In Paris, where I grew up and currently live, my favourite place remains a stroll along the Seine, between the Louvre and the Ile Saint-Louis, especially in confinement when the city is deserted 🙂

♥ What book keeps you up all night?
Impossible to stop in the middle of a good book, I frequently re-read my top 4: The Little Prince (St Exupéry), The Count of Monte-Christo (Alexandre Dumas), Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand) and Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling)

♥ What are your biggest sources of inspiration?
Every photo I retouch inspires me, by the pose of the person(s) depicted, their clothes, their story, the location. On the technical and colour side, I follow a few hundred brilliant artists on Instagram and pick up a few ideas left and right.

♥ What’s the funkiest thing you’ve done in your life?
Skydiving, sandsurfing, travelling alone in the Amazon jungle (with crocodile hunting), triple galloping on horseback in the Valley of the Moon in Chile, starting my own business, writing and singing a Cluedo Opera with friends in a Parisian mansion, writing and drawing a comic book, learning to read hieroglyphics… the list goes on, I’m rarely bored!

♥ What is your definition of happiness?
A good comic book, by the fire, in the mountains, sipping a good cocktail, while someone plays the piano, with a tartiflette baking in the oven.