Les Bijoux D'Odette

founded by

Fanny Crenn

belongs to

Fanny Crenn

about

Les Bijoux D’Odette is a jewelry and clothing collection that acts as a conduit on an esoteric journey into the past, through adornment, memory, connection and history, as seen through the eyes of Odette. Designer Fanny Crenn is based in Brittany, France, while Odette, who operates as muse for the creation of the collection, lives in Crenn’s heart and her mind. Crenn’s jewelry and clothing have the appearance of a particularly eclectic designer’s mood board, or an artist’s journal, filled with mementos and visual memories from the past, captured in the mix of eclectic items, that range form old photos to leather gloves. While her clothing is a fight of fantasy, that wouldn’t look out of place adorning Titania from Shakespeare’s’ play of about the wooded fairly world, A Midsummer Nights Dream.

The inspiration for Les Bijoux D’Odette originally came from a found suitcase in a waste center, full of old papers and family pictures, labeled “Mum’s things”. Mum was Odette Picaud, a name and face that Crenn immediately connected with. The visual connection of Odette Picaud’s memories from the past, has formed the basis of Les Bijoux D’Odette collection ever since. Each item is unique and hand made, assembled and sewn in Crenn’s Western France showroom in the countryside of Brittany. Often thought of as strange, Crenn’s work is never the less a tangible connection to the past, with each creation acting as a visual and tactile memory and conduit to the past.

The birth of her son in 2004 punctuated the start of Les Bijoux D’Odette, with the birth of her daughter since, heralding a new journey of creative connection into the past, with the creation of strange and curious dolls in the same vein as the jewels and the clothing.