Fashion designer Pierre Mahéo talks taste
The founder of Officine Générale adores Italian food, his vintage Tank and the WeatherPro app
My personal style signifier is colour matching, in my work and personal life. If I’m wearing navy pants, I have to have a navy sweater that matches perfectly. I’ve been dressing like this forever; it’s a kind of freedom for me, because I don’t have to think about what to wear in the morning. And I always wear a vintage watch – a 1979 Cartier Tank Chinoise, which is a pretty rare model.
The last things I bought and loved were two artworks by Michael Schouflikir, compositions made of recycled pieces of wood and metal, built on vintage frames. They are from a gallery I love in Saint-Germain-des-Prés called Tourrette, run by Carole Korngold, that shows a new artist every month; they’ve had Laurent Jaffrennou’s work on paper, Thomas Junghans’s sculptures and Mirco Marchelli paintings.
The place that means a lot to me is Ibiza, where I have a holiday home. When I first went there I didn’t connect with it, but I think it’s a place that you have to discover. Now my wife and I have a house in the centre of the island with a beautiful view of the countryside; it’s absolutely charming. The house is a mix of an old finca and Bauhaus style so it has very interesting shapes. I do the opposite of what most visitors do on the island: I wake up at 6.30am, get a coffee from the village, and later have dinner with some friends.
And the best souvenir I’ve brought home is a sculpture of a man’s head that I got at Noordermarkt flea market in Amsterdam. We were supposed to be buying it for one of our stores, which always have secondhand objects and furniture in them, but I felt a connection with it and wanted to keep it at home.