Valentine Fillol Cordier

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anyone knows where i can find all the photos from her APC campaign with jaime hince??
 
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“After having a baby I guess I spend a tiny bit less time in the shower; I really enjoy a bath now when she’s asleep, which I never used to before. Now, having a bath and—not forgetting the child, obviously—but relaxing, relaxing your body and your arms in the warmth of the bath… It’s true that my skin feels much better. My skin was greasy before I was pregnant, and now it’s been very dry, actually. My hair grew loads. Everybody says you’re supposed to lose your hair when you start breastfeeding cause your normal hormones get used elsewhere, but that hasn’t happened. So I’ve just got long hair again finally. Perhaps it is true that you can’t dye your hair when you’re pregnant because of the chemicals, but truthfully you don’t want to do that anyway because there’s so much change involved in pregnancy, and you can’t recognize yourself, and if you start messing with your haircut—you don’t want to mess up your look when you’re pregnant.

I started out modeling at 14. I grew up in Paris, I moved to London when I was 17, alone—I had a boyfriend, but I kind of just chanced it a bit. I said, ‘Okay, just going to start something here.’ And I’m 27 now, so it’s been 10 years that I’ve lived in London. When I was 18 and 19 I was on-and-off in New York working, so I had a flat there for a bit. I did my first styling job when I was 16; I’ve always been into it. This is how I starting styling: there was a photographer that said, ‘Let’s take pictures of you, and then you can put some clothes on.’ So I did that a for bit, but I didn’t think of it as a career until four years ago when I decided properly, ‘This is going to be my job.’ I had started working a lot with Charles Anastase, did all his shows, consulting for all his collections. I wasn’t working for magazines then, but was really into the whole thing.

Over the years, I’ve come to realize I cannot use moisturizer everyday. It’s if I do, I end up with pimples. I’ve tried every single moisturizer on the planet. I went to the dermatologist—nothing works. On an everyday basis, I think my skin gets used to it, and then it just starts rejecting it, and I start having pimples, it itches, and it’s just really not nice. So, I wash my skin with water, or with something that’s actually quite abrasive, something I get in New York that I buy probably once every two years called Desert Essence Thoroughly Clean Face Wash for Oily and Combination Skin. I wash my skin probably three times a week with that, and if not, with water. I use Bioderma Crealine, as well, in the evening—I buy a big bottle of that every couple of years. It’s really not glamorous. No moisturizer, but sometimes when I get dry patches, I use Aquaphor, which I think is fantastic. I do masks with that. Or over on the nose, if you have a bit of a cold. I’ll put some Clarins cream on like twice a month, just to feel like, ‘Ooh, I’ve put some cream on.’

I change shampoos all the time, but at the moment I’m using one from Vichy for dry scalps. I feel like my scalp gets used to one, and then my hair starts getting greasy or I start getting eczema on my head, so I change it up all the time. But I use conditioner almost every day—any sort made for dry, dry hair.

I’m very unglamorous: I use Aquaphor, and this nipple cream from when I was breastfeeding, Medela Tender Care Lanolin, and maybe Clarins Beauty Flash Balm, which is a primer before makeup. I love Clarins Eau Dynamisante Deodorant. I just love the smell of it; it’s like a cologne. My perfume changes, but the one at the moment is called Cologne Friction from Nicolaï. If not, I really like Mitsouko from Guerlain, which was my mom’s perfume. I also love Coromandel by Chanel.

Makeup feels weird. My style can sometimes be a tiny bit weird or eccentric—I tend to have a few stupid details: there’s always an odd thing, and if you start adding makeup to the whole shebang, it just looks weird. I mean, it just looks too much. I like things to still look natural. I love Laura Mercier oil-free Tinted Moisturizer. If I do makeup, I do that and a bit of her Undercover Pot—I think Laura Mercier is brilliant for makeup. I don’t really do lip liners, but I have loads of eyeliners from Chanel and Rimmel. Eyebrows are very important, so I try and pluck them; I don’t really need to use an eyebrow pencil. I’ve been thinking about bleaching my eyebrows lately, but I don’t know.

I think less is more. I mean, that’s a cliché thing, but I really believe it. I see some of my friends putting makeup on, and they’re perfectly beautiful as they are.”
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oh my gosh, i want her haircolour. my hair colour is almost the same as hers, except more brassy. i'm going to save these on my phone and show them to my stylist.

such a down to earth style! although, i cant imagine never using moisturizer!
 
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Photography by Mr Laurence Ellis | Styling by Mr Dan May
Words by Mr Chris Elvidge, Senior Copywriter, MR PORTER

Mr Jonathan Heaf, 33, is features director of British GQ. Ms Valentine Fillol-Cordier, 28, is from Paris and works as a stylist. They have been a couple for "four and a bit" years, while Gigi, their first child, arrived almost one year ago (it's her birthday this week). All three live together in a small flat in north London.

How did you meet? [Both exchange a glance, then laugh]
Mr Heaf: We met through a mutual friend of mine, my best friend...
Ms Fillol-Cordier: His ex-girlfriend!
Mr Heaf: She works as a fashion PR. She was organising Charles Anastase's show, and I went along. Valentine was there - she was styling the show - and afterwards everyone met in the pub. You told me you wanted to marry an American man, so I said I didn't know any nice American men...
Ms Fillol-Cordier: My friend liked him; she messaged me under the table while we were all sitting there. I had to text back to say "me too".

And how quickly did you find yourselves in a relationship?
Ms Fillol-Cordier: That evening we kissed. Well, not kissed - really made out. We saw each other for a month and a half, but then we stopped seeing each other for a while...
Mr Heaf: Well, she stopped seeing me for a while! She went halfway around the world, I cried for a long time, then she realised what she was missing [laughs].

At what point did you start dating seriously?
Ms Fillol-Cordier: I used to live in Swiss Cottage, and there's a bench in Belsize Park. It was the morning, and we'd been up all night - this was back when we could still do that, before the baby - and it was snowing, it was very romantic.
Mr Heaf: That was the night we decided that we were going to be together, that we should give it a go. It was about six months after we met.

How do you spend your time together?
Mr Heaf: We're both very social animals, I think. We have a good group of friends who we love to spend time with.

How do your tastes differ?
Ms Fillol-Cordier: Sport!
Mr Heaf: I do triathlons, and that's something we don't share too much common ground on. Actually, that's not entirely true - she was interested in it for a while, when Pippa Middleton was doing it...
Ms Fillol-Cordier: What? That's totally ridiculous! I don't even remember that [laughs].
Mr Heaf: What about music? I think I have quite a wide range of tastes, so I'm happy to listen to up-and-coming, on-the-verge bands, but I'll unashamedly listen to commercial stuff, too.
Ms Fillol-Cordier: That's true - we have big arguments about music, but then I'm a bit of a music snob.

What's the first thing you miss when the other is away?
Mr Heaf: I couldn't possibly say that on tape!
Ms Fillol-Cordier: I'm actually quite happy when he's away! We usually have such a full house - we live in a small flat with a dog and a baby, which is wonderful, of course, but it's good to have some space.
Mr Heaf: It's hard to say exactly what I miss the most. We spend so much time in each other's presence chatting, laughing and hanging out that it's the company - just having her there.

How have you changed since you met each other?
Mr Heaf: I think I've just become less of an angry young man. I'm a lot happier.
Ms Fillol-Cordier: Me too. And we're both so much more calm!
Mr Heaf: I've lost that panic. I feel as if the perpetual search of my twenties is over, and it's a nice feeling to have met that person that you're going to spend the rest of your life with.

To Ms Fillol-Cordier: And how has Jonathan's style changed since you met him?
Ms Fillol-Cordier: Not enough!

How has having a child changed your relationship?
Ms Fillol-Cordier: What changes is the spontaneity, and I think that's the hardest thing about having a baby - you can never just decide to go to the pub after work, for instance. I do miss that, and I think one of the challenges of being a parent is finding ways to inject spontaneity into your life to compensate.
Mr Heaf: Even if it's fake spontaneity - "Let's be spontaneous! In an hour." We're also a lot more focused on our work now that we're responsible for a child. Financially, and career-wise, our goals have definitely changed.
Ms Fillol-Cordier: In a way, becoming a mother has also made me more confident of my own abilities. I have more belief in what I can achieve now - I can say "I've done that, why can't I do this?"

What do you think are the basic ingredients of a happy relationship?
Mr Heaf: Sex, love...
Ms Fillol-Cordier: ...And good food. It may not be too politically correct, but I think that to keep a man happy you should cook for him.
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She was featured in an article for the Guardian some days ago. It was interesting, I identify more with her approach to style but she came off as a bit narrow-minded. I'm thinking that perhaps Susie started with the writing and passed it on to her to give her an idea and she didn't enjoy the criticism and felt like she had to be harsh? either way it's not unlike any other clashing over different interpretations of style with another woman, we can be.. meow. And the whole time I was thinking that Valentine not always dressed like this, much like all of us in our early 20s, she used to experiment a lot too with 'striking' pieces and combinations (LFW outfit with mint coat, polka dot dress over pants?), sometimes it's just fun and an attraction to it, some people move on, others continue to find expression in that aesthetic, big deal....

I will agree that in times of street style stars/attention-seekers, I for one feel a bit repelled by statement pieces and "creative" combinations and just want discretion.

Anyway, I still love her style, maybe even more now whenever she shows up on instagram... and totally irrelevant for this topic but I think she has the cutest family and the way Jonathan talks about her and photographs her is so heart-warming. :heart:
 
I think they both said some not-so-nice things. I will agree, though, that Valentine used to wear some crazy stuff herself. I think maybe her point was that Susie is practically a walking advertisement, and it's very forced. Valentine may have had a bit of a wild-dressing past, but I don't believe it was ever forced. I don't know.

You're so right when talking about her family and Jonathan! They are so adorable and such a stylish couple. And GiGi is so cute!!
 
US InStyle March 2019

Love, London

Photographer: Ruth Ossai
Stylist: Kendal Mae Boyle
Hair: Adam Garland, George Northwood
Makeup: Sharon Drugan
Manicure: Liga Tukmane
Set Design: Lianna Fowler
Cast: Erdem & Ina Jensen, Roksanda & Ashley Adjaye, Simone Rocha & Flora Fleming, Alexa Chung & Valentine Fillol-Cordier, Christopher Kane & Sheila Atim, Giles Deacon & Hebe Flury, Michael Halpern & Maxim Magnus, Roland Mouret & Sabrina Dhowre Elba, Mary Katrantzou & Sara van der Hoek



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