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Le Panache Interview

We met Jérôme Gauthier Founder of Le Panache Paris.

Country: France What: Headwear | For: Men, Women | Style: Premium, Minimal, Handcrafted | Category: Emerging Brand

Innovative design, selected materials and limited production.

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1. Where do you draw your inspiration from?

From my emotions, from my sensitive experiences good and bad, from my feelings experienced listening to a music, during the visit of an exhibition whatever the subject, from my memories related to the moments lived, to the situations, happiness and unhappy experiences.

More than inspiration, it is about of being able to win over the cowardly act of retranscribing, without too much reinterpreting them, the sensations felt and expressing them the closest to what they are.

2. How would you describe your designs?

As steps of a work in progress.

Le Panache Paris
Jérôme Gauthier

3. How did you get into designing hats?

This project has taken its place as an evidence to be closer to my desires, my roots and at the same time to move away by doing something else with.

As osteopath’s son who has memories of a childhood studying the skeletons in my father’s office, I made the Cap Trick using three pieces of fabric to represent frontal and parietal skull plates.

But I made this statement a posteriori, my starting goal being to build differently this accessory to authenticate its origin, mine.

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4. Which one is your favourite piece from your collection and why?

Model No. 1 because it is the culmination of a long journey, the idea materialized even if its form has evolved a lot since without losing its original identity.

5. How would describe your Le Panache customers?

Before or after reading our presentation?
Our customers  are people like me who are looking for a different product in its subtility, without any apparent branding or external sign of belonging.

People who love quality, well-done and sustainable to live long.
I like this idea that objects are a memory of their owner with whom he shares moments that I hope will become good memories

Le Panache bucket hat

6. When you are creating a piece or a collection, how does the process work?

The Panache Paris focuses on two products, a bucket hat and a cap.

So to speak, we do not create a collection. We decline our two products every month under different aspects, mainly by the choice of fabrics carefully selected for different criteria that we consider qualities.

Five years ago, the design was a long process.

From paper models, patronnage, fabric prototype, choice of production fabrics, first serial production, analysis, corrections, modifications, and back to production. That was long empirical way to able to reach satisfaction.

Every month, Le Panache Paris offers a new model.

6. What makes a good cap?

First of all, what makes you want to wear it: its cut, its color, the pleasure of having it on the head because it allows you to affirm your singularity, your difference.

Le Panache Caps & Bucket Hats

7. What has been your biggest struggle as a designer?

Above all to give yourself time to find the best interlocutors that will most likely accompany the project.

Then most noteworthy, to precisely convey the idea that we have in mind to those who will materialize it.

With all the models and the prototypes, it is necessary to convince to do differently, against the habits of production.

There is a lot of discussions going on where we learn a lot from each others’s experience in the project.

The choice of a French production did make sense to us. It was necessary for the exchange and the dialogue.

8. How many pairs of hats do you own?

51 is the number of cap and bucket hat in Le Panache Paris’s Catalogue.

I try to keep a copy of each model being the first ambassador of the brand.

That leaves me the choice and the pleasure to wear every day a different hat every day.

9. If you weren’t a designer, what would you be doing?

I do not consider my activity as an end but rather as a mean of expression.

Expressing myself through music as I do by drawing would have pleased me.

Besides, The Panache Paris is a perfect example of having also an activity of furniture designer and interior architect.

10. Your favourite moment of the day?

It depends on the day … I like the beginning

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