Lolita Lempicka

Lolita Lempicka (real name Josiane Maryse Pividal in Bordeaux, 1954) is a French fashion designer and perfumer.

An admirer of her mother's work as a seamstress, Lolita Lempicka dressed Barbie dolls herself at the age of six; as a teenager she crafted her own clothes.

When designing her collections, she drew inspiration from Coco Chanel, whom she discovered on French TV show Dim Dam Dom.

Her inspiration was also drawn from the work of artists such as the photographer David Hamilton, the poet Jean Cocteau, pre-Raphaelite and symbolist painters, as well as Amedeo Modigliani, Picasso, Matisse, Gustave Moreau and Ingres.

Lempicka's designs are also influenced by "the thirties and forties and their lace and silk negligee dresses, 18th-century Baroque and its dainty marchionesses".

In 1987, she started a long lasting partnership with the Japanese group Onward Kashiyama for a master license including fashion clothes and accessories (leather, sun glasses, jewelry, shoes, and lingerie).

That year, her eldest daughter Elisa Melodie joined the fashion studio and started collaborating actively in the design of new collections.

In 2003, after studying art and fashion, Lolita's twins Lauren Leslie and Paulina Leonor joined the family business.

In 2009, she expanded her partnerships with luggage maker Delsey and organic product creator Bonneterre (tea, biscuits, chocolates) with Les Gourmandises de Lolita Lempicka.

The perfume muse was Charlotte Le Bon, the weather girl from Canal +, France premium TV channel.

In an eco-friendly approach, Mon Eau meets its commitment to the respect and protection of the environment and animals by being labeled vegan "[[OneVoice Movement|One Voice].» Lolita Lempicka has dressed many French actresses, such as Charlotte Gainsbourg and Anouk Grinberg in the film "Merci La Vie", Vanessa Paradis in "L'Arnacoeur" (Heartbreaker), Victoria Abril in "Gazon Maudit" (French Twist), and Mathilde Seigner in "Mariages!"

She also invited many actresses to wear her creations at fashion shows, such as Diane Kruger, Clotilde Courau, Élodie Bouchez, Emmanuelle Seigner, Laetitia Casta, Florence Thomassin, Marine Delterme, Valérie Kaprisky, Charlotte Valandrey, and Geraldine Pailhas.

Lolita Lempicka has dressed Élodie Bouchez, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Chiara Mastroianni, Josiane Balasko, Laetitia Casta, Béatrice Dalle, Cécile Cassel, and Roxane Mesquida for the occasion in the past.

[2] In 2014, Lempica appeared on La Nouvelle Edition on Canal+ to discuss her opposition to Air France's transport of monkeys to laboratories which she called a "waking nightmare" for the animals.

Melodie lives in New York and is responsible for the brand in the United States, while Leonor and Leslie work closely with their mother in Paris.