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That is to say, to meet a couturier as he prepares his first couture collection, to follow his career as it blossoms and to get to know him as a person.

I, as a fashion critic, am fortunate enough to boast of having had such an opportunity in the person of Pascal Millet, the couturier at Carven, still one of the world’s oldest couture houses.

For years he learned from, collaborated with and created alongside some of the industry’s most remarkable and dazzling talents including Hubert de Givenchy, Michel Goma, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. For three years, this bird of couture has been soaring on his own.

I remember with precision the June afternoon where I met Pascal Millet for the very first time. During that period, my company and I represented Henry Achkoyan and his ateliers, Au Rythme du Futur. I obtained an appointment at Carven in order to present our couture line of shoes in the hopes of working out a collaborative effort with Carven.

Arriving at Carven’s Rond Point des Champs-Elysées headquarters, I was a little surprised to see just how relaxed and at ease Pascal Millet seemed to be. Yet, little did I suspect, Pascal had every reason to be of all nerves and of all excitement!

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