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Camille Lorigo (left) established Che Camille, a showroom for independent design in Glasgow’s Chateau. She started off supporting young artists and designers and offers a made-to- measure clothes service.
‘You shouldn‘t have to work at .\lcl)oiialtl\ if you‘re a painter: you should be able to live off your paintings. There are support networks for music and fine art but nothing for design or fashion.
‘At the moment I‘m mentoring. trying to teach the artists about marketability and what customers want. My position is giving feedback and maybe some polish but it's also providing PR and getting the word out — it takes so much work. livery week's been a test. But that‘s good because if I‘d snapped my lingers and made it happen it would never be the same place that it is.
‘We‘ve become the (‘hateau
canteen and lots of Chateau people show work here.
People come and hang otit A which is nice because I can test ideas. It‘s exactly what I
want this space to be — people
come out at weekends and end
tip here.
‘l‘m trying to educate people about the made-to-measure concept and the idea of commissioning paintings and furniture. but they're used to walking into a shop and seeing it. I‘m saying to them this is a sample. it might fit and you can take it now. but the idea is that it's made for you. You pick the fabric. we measure you and it's perfect. You‘ll have it forever.
‘lt’s about trying to make the art side more accessible to the public. Shopping is the way to bring them in. but then 1 they get to meet the artists and see that there‘s an idea behind the work. I
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“"‘t great reputation — you look alter art and get Transmission l ' a ‘ and Tramway. It just shows what can happen. I‘d like to do
work of my own but for now I need to get this going. Then there‘ll be time to play.‘
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. From a Faslane native to a bespoke clothes designer, Claire Black meets four people who are working and living outside the box. www.checamille.com; camille©checamille.com
; SAM JONES . . . . , Sam Jones was born and lived at Faslane ; .M°"lhl¥CYCFWSEWPPQUEQPPPTQFEPQGWWWYYW-ed'r‘bum_ . Peace Camp with his activist parents until he critical-mass.org.uk The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army Challenging was seven. He was first arrested for protesting i . . . . at 15. : through globalisation through non-Violent action www.clownarmy.org Camcorder-WW .Umil I became politically aware. activism was Si mp1}, fun ‘ Guerillas Collective of radical fimlmakers and artists, www.camcorderguerillas.net and I got to meet different people. When I was about 14 l ' started looking at the world more seriously. at how
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