Before she even knew how to sew, Helena Pasquier was making clothes. At just four years of age she designed her first outfit: an orange felt skirt with a matching top, laced together with strips of felt. “I think it runs in the family,” she says.
Pasquier, who launched the brand Helena Magdalenawith her brother, Paul, last year, comes from a family of creators. Her grandparents were revolutionaries in the lingerie business, starting the…
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