Destree Tag

ART AND SOUL: There are lots of canvases for creative expression: French accessories and designer Géraldine Guyot and her artist friend Ben Arpéa each used linen in a summer collaboration for her brand Destree. Guyot faithfully reproduced the checkered motifs, potted flowers and sun-baked colours from Arpéa’s paintings, applying them to column dresses with circular cutouts ringing the waist, and her signature puff-sleeved jackets and band-collared shirts. “Destree and my work go thoroughly together,” Arpéa remarked at a cocktail party Thursday night on the Galerie Camille Pouyfaucon, where the artist hung several recent large linen canvases, and Guyot displayed her 10-item collection, dropping next week on Destree’s e-store and in its Paris boutique. It’s plain that the artist and the French entrepreneur, who...