2016.07.10 设计师和雕塑家Nicole Farhi

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Kirsty Young's castaway is the designer and sculptor Nicole Farhi.

Born into a Turkish family in France, Nicole's interest in fashion was present from an early age. As a child, she used to design clothes for her paper dolls; as a teenager, she was taken to couture shows in Paris by her stylish aunts.

Aged eighteen, she enrolled in fashion school in Paris and began selling her design sketches to earn a little pocket money, thus setting out on a career as a freelance designer. In the early 1970s, she met the British entrepreneur Stephen Marks who was just starting the retail chain French Connection where she became chief designer, and it was he who encouraged her to set up her eponymous label in 1982. Her fashion empire would eventually extend to New York, London and Tokyo before being sold in 2010, and Nicole herself left the business in 2012.

Since retiring from fashion, Nicole Farhi has dedicated herself to her other passion - sculpture. She sculpts predominantly in clay and then casts her works in different materials including glass, bronze and concrete.

She has been married to the playwright Sir David Hare since 1992.



设计师和雕塑家Nicole Farhi

妮可出生在法国的一个土耳其家庭，从小就对时尚感兴趣。小时候，她经常为她的纸娃娃设计衣服；十几岁时，她被她时尚的阿姨们带到巴黎的高级时装秀。

18岁时，她进入巴黎的时装学校学习，并开始出售她的设计草图以赚取一点零花钱，从而开始了自由设计师的职业生涯。在20世纪70年代初，她遇到了英国企业家斯蒂芬-马克斯（Stephen Marks），当时他刚刚创办了零售连锁店French Connection，她在那里成为首席设计师，正是他鼓励她在1982年建立了自己的同名品牌。她的时尚帝国最终将扩展到纽约、伦敦和东京，然后在2010年被出售，而妮可本人也在2012年离开了这个行业。

自从从时尚界退休后，妮可-法尔西致力于她的另一个爱好--雕塑。她主要用粘土进行雕刻，然后用不同的材料铸造她的作品，包括玻璃、青铜和混凝土。

自1992年以来，她与剧作家大卫-黑尔爵士结婚。