Behind every name, there may be a whole story.
I have always loved people’s life stories: those of artists and their muses, of women and men who left their mark on their time. I love biographies and biopics, discovering the people behind their achievements, understanding their choices, encounters and struggles.
What fascinates me is not only what people have accomplished. It is everything they went through to get there.
The difficulties, the unexpected turns, the detours, the people who teach us something or leave their mark on our lives. We often see the result. Rarely the whole journey.
What if I created a bag for her?
This curiosity about people’s lives also feeds my imagination. Sometimes, when I discover the story of a woman who inspires me, I find myself imagining the bag she might have carried. Or the one I would have loved to create for her.
I think, for example, of Bessie Coleman, an aviation pioneer whose courage inspired a Lyne Juline creation that is currently sold out.
And then there is Eileen Gray, a pioneering figure in design and architecture. A bag bearing her name is currently being prototyped, gradually taking shape through sketches, materials and refinements.
I am not trying to recreate their era or their style. I imagine a meeting between their stories and my creative world.
A first name instead of a number
Not every Lyne Juline bag is named after a famous person. Sometimes a design takes shape before I even know what to call it. Then, as I work on it, a name comes naturally.
It is a way of giving it an identity, a character, something that sets it apart. The same idea applies to my men’s creations, which also have first names.
I like a bag to have a name people can remember, rather than simply a product reference.
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The stories do not end here
With this blog, I want to share more than my creations: the people who inspire me, the stories that move me and the encounters that spark ideas. I also want to take you behind the scenes of my work, where a drawing gradually becomes an object.
Because what I love about a story is not only where it takes us. It is discovering what we learn and carry with us along the way.
Make it… Just add love.