{"id":1114,"date":"2026-08-07T18:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/fashion\/longchamp-caroline-helain-collaboration\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:24:08","slug":"longchamp-caroline-helain-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/fashion\/longchamp-caroline-helain-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Textile Artist Caroline H\u00e9lain on Her Collaboration with Longchamp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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French textile artist Caroline H\u00e9lain creates abstract compositions of landscapes with sprawling fields, rolling hills, calm waters, and bright blue skies. With an intuitive understanding of colour, depth and texture, she portrays the natural world by layering and assembling hand-cut fabrics. H\u00e9lain draws inspiration from her own experience in nature; the \u201cever-changing\u201d seascapes, in particular, leave a lasting impression on her.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been sailing for 15 years,\u201d she says, describing her journeys along the French coast. \u201cAt first, there is only the sea. When you start approaching land by boat, you can see more and more of the island, then slowly, you can finally make out the shape of the coast. Against the crashing waves, you notice the texture and colour of the cliffs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

In this exclusive interview, BAZAAR speaks to Caroline H\u00e9lain about her collaboration with Longchamp.<\/h2>\n
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\n\t\t\tCaroline H\u00e9lain\u2019s textile landscapes are brought to life on Longchamp\u2019s Daylong bags, Le Pliage tote bags, a series of knitwear and T-shirts, and scarves.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

For Longchamp, H\u00e9lain dives into her childhood memories of \u201cescaping into nature\u201d, crafting nine exclusive landscapes to be transposed on a capsule collection of leather goods, knitwear, and scarves. The creative process began with the composition and colour palette. \u201cThere was one specific hue with a fluorescent touch that created a luminous contrast,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n

From there, there were deep conversations about the placement of the landscapes and how to adapt them to the shape of each piece. H\u00e9lain\u2019s early foray into textile arts involved \u201cdrawing with a needle\u201d with embroidery and handsewn dolls, before discovering that she enjoyed cutting directly onto fabric and using the appliqu\u00e9 technique. This background helped her consider that her artwork will be transposed on a three-dimensional canvas.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy collaboration with Longchamp has given me, for the first time, the opportunity to extend the landscapes I create onto the scale of the body. The idea that my horizons can follow the move, enveloping the entire silhouette, feels deeply meaningful to me,\u201d says H\u00e9lain.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe part of the beauty [in this collaboration] is that every detail is determined down to where each stitch will be located and the amount of space between them,\u201d she enthuses. The challenge of working with different materials, such as leather, canvas, cotton, and boucl\u00e9 virgin wool, did not faze H\u00e9lain. \u201cIn fact, we made the landscapes immersive on the silk scarves and cashmere squares. It will be different every time you put it on, depending on how you put it on or tie it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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When pressed to pick a favourite item from the capsule collection, H\u00e9lain points to the Daylong Weekender. \u201cI like everything about it,\u201d she laughs, adding that she will be able to take the spacious travel bag on her upcoming sailing trip to Italy.<\/p>\n

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This story, On The Horizon, was feature in Harper\u2019s BAZAAR Malaysia\u2019s August 2026 print issue.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything you need to know about Longchamp’s Autumn\/Winter ’26 collaboration with Caroline H\u00e9lain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bzd_title_left":"","bzd_title_right":"","footnotes":"","bz_kicker":"","bz_opener":"split","bz_photographer":"","bz_hero_caption":"","bz_hero_credit":"","bz_hero_clip":0,"bz_inset":1115,"bz_tile_image":0,"bz_clip":0,"bz_tile_dek":"","bz_reading_time":"","bz_duration":"","bz_feature_small":0,"bz_feature_medium":0,"bz_feature_quote":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"bz_slot":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"bz_slot","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bz_slot?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}