After graduating from Esmod, I worked as a pattern maker and then as a workshop manager for ten years, both in the Sentier area and for well-known designers. I finally mastered the secrets of cutting.

Then, my sense of contact and organisation naturally led me to the production and purchasing fields. One thing leading to another, as manufacturing became more and more outsourced, I began to travel to the four corners of the world to launch collections, negotiate prices and place orders.

As a fashion globetrotter, I specialised in the sourcing of warp and weft and knitwear for medium and high end ready-to-wear garments. The opportunity to move to the supplier side and develop my commercial skills was offered to me by a large Indian textile group, whose Paris office I managed for several years, enabling it to develop its customer base in Europe.

Through these meetings and travels, I have identified real knowledge, learned to source, develop and buy all types of products and materials.

But I also found that factories with great potential did not promote their offer enough and had difficulty understanding their customers' expectations.

As for the factory agents, who often had no real technical knowledge or product sensitivity, their role was purely commercial.

Convinced that another client-supplier relationship was possible, I decided to create SOURCE ME UP in 2013.