LOUISE BOURGEOIS X SANDRO

In the course of its iconographic research for the new 2025 collection, the SANDRO Women’s design studio deepened its perception of the artistic universe of Louise Bourgeois.

Louise Bourgeois is often remembered for her monumental sculptures, notably her famous spiders, the largest of which is entitled Maman. But there is much more to the creative universe of Louise Bourgeois. Evelyne Chetrite, Founder and Artistic Director of SANDRO, paid particular attention to her spirals.  

To express the symbolic resonance of the spiral in her work, Louise Bourgeois drew on memories of her childhood. She associated spirals with a multitude of emotions. The spiral thus became a powerful visual metaphor for these complex feelings.  

The artist also attached particular importance to fabric and used fabrics from her own closet and home as raw materials in her creative process. She made patchworks of fabrics from garments she disassembled and then reassembled in different compositions - illustrating a deeply personal artistic method. 

Long before the idea of upcycling became fashionable, Louise Bourgeois had already incorporated it into her creative process. This care for prolonging the life of materials particularly resonates with SANDRO’s values, and this approach has inspired the design studio. 

For Evelyne Chetrite, Founder and Artistic Director of SANDRO, this unique vision evoked the whirlwind of life. The deconstructed and reconstructed fabrics awakened poetic images in her: memories under the parasols of a beach in Nice. The emotion generated by the works of Louise Bourgeois guided the women’s design studio in the conception of a creative capsule that will see the light of day in April 2025. Through this collaboration, SANDRO aims to offer exclusive and unique pieces, celebrating both its know-how and its attachment to art and artists. 

“Like Louise, we tried to reflect on our relationship with clothes. Like her, we may have found a way to master the chaos that surrounds us. Like Louise, SANDRO celebrates women without claiming militant feminism and appreciates fashion without succumbing to the excesses of ultraconsumerism.” 

Evelyne Chetrite 

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