In which way is the Cartier first panther woman - Jeanne Toussaint - an inspiration to you?
卡地亚第一位“猎豹女士”贞·杜桑在哪些方面给了你启发?
I’ve always found Jeanne Toussaint incredibly inspiring. She was... a revolutionary, I feel, and she was the woman that decided to make the figurative panther, the embodiment of the panther, in the spirit, but she decided to have the panther in the actual jewellery, and you can see now with this, to have the actual panther head.
She chose something so strong that it’s still being worn today, and women everywhere are wearing it. I feel really honoured to still be wearing her designs now.
I think as women especially today we are continually asked to rise up and to be ourselves and to be singular, independent, fierce, but incredibly vulnerable, and I think the panther, and the spirit of the panther utterly embodies that.
How does it feel to embody such a powerful creature?
作为猎豹的化身又怎样的感受?
Because the panther is so feminine and so feline, I think it reminds me to try and be strong in who I am and to remember who I am and to be sure about who I am, as well as keep a gentleness and an openness and a softness.
And I think the suppleness of the panther, the independence, the fierceness and the strength for me has always been something that I would only hope to embody in my life, to try and combine those things, which I think is the feminine, honestly.