Sofi Le Geron
Sofi Le Geron
Founder and Designer
Louve de Nordneg
Louve de Nordneg’s French-born and Central St. Martin’s trained designer Sofi Le Garon has gotten creating scarf prints practically down to an art form. “So with my scarves, I hope you can even put one on a wall and look at it, and go into these mysterious worlds or something--like looking at a painting,” she says about her intricate scarves. She first starts by layering objects, dropping them in water sometimes with swirls of jewel-toned ink and photographing her results. A grid pattern is actually a fisherman’s net and a glint of white could be a string of pearls. The photographs are then digitized and manipulated into the abstract prints that bring her scarves to life.
Now working on expanding Louve de Nordneg beyond just scarves--right now, bow ties are already in the mix, but her prints would clearly look amazing on everything from maxi skirts to bathing suits--Sofi and her designs have been featured in publications like Marie Claire and on style personalities like Darren Kennedy since she launched her first collection in 2012.
Though born to painter parents, Sofi didn’t think of working in a visual medium at first. Luckily for us, she caught the itch to create and design while traveling in Japan and London. “I’ve always been really involved in the arts and literature--things like that. So I guess with design, I wanted to combine something very visually attractive but with a storytelling aspect to it,” she says, explaining to us why we can’t quite take our eyes off of her designs. After all, who doesn't love a beautiful story?