Did your childhood in Algeria inspire you to become a jewellery designer?
I come from a family of designers and my parents have always encouraged us to engage in the arts. We were always drawing and painting and creating things. My parents even gave me my own wall to do whatever I wanted with it.
When did you move to Paris?
I moved to Paris when I was 22 years old in order to study. I had already attained a degree in architecture in Algeria but I wanted to study stage and costume design so I enrolled at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs.
How did your education in stage and costume design help develop your jewellery aesthetic?
After I finished school, I worked for the Opera de Paris designing costumes and accessories. Of course, in stage productions, everything has to be larger than life so I learned how to use the little means we had to create bold, statement jewellery that could be seen from afar. That was how I began to develop my own personal style of jewellery design.