Fall 26 — Featured Artist Julie Daleyden

For the Fall Collection, we worked with our friend, France-based artist Julie Daleyden, to bring her beautiful artwork to fabric.

Julie Daleyden is an illustrator and textile designer from northern France, who has lived in Lille for the last twenty years. From an early age, she knew her "thing" would be in the art world.

Her parents enrolled her in art school at age six, giving her the opportunity to discover different techniques: drawing, pottery, and engraving. As a child, she also spent a lot of time at her grandparents', notably in her grandmother's sewing workshop. Fabric and beautiful materials quickly became part of her creative life. At age 16, she studied at the Beaux Arts in Belgium and immediately felt at home and in her element.

Today, her studio is on the second floor of her home in France. Julie has been working for years with various textile, clothing, home décor, and toy brands while continuing to develop her own projects. Textile motifs allow her to tell stories on fabric.

At home, Julie surrounds herself with the works of artist friends and creates little stories for herself through objects and furniture that she's collected over time or that belonged to people important to her. She collects things that might be useful to her in her creative practice or as inspiration.

Whatever the medium, Julie loves volume and being close to the material. In her notebooks, she draws little characters who travel across different worlds, reappearing in her engravings and ceramics. Julie gets her inspiration from travel, books, objects, traditional costumes, carnivals, Inuit art, sculpture, music, art brut, and naïve art.