From his homeland to France, where he now lives, Martial Tapolo is an internationally renowned fashion designer who knows how to blend different styles and materials to create designs imbued with elegance, glamour, and a variety of silhouettes. He describes fabric as an indispensable source of beautiful creations because, in his view, every material has its own story, beauty, and style.

He finds magic in any malleable, aesthetically appealing material. But his favorite seems to be silk in the form of organdy, taffeta, dupioni, brocade, and Jacquard, which he blends as he pleases with raffia, burlap, and precious reptile leathers, adding decorative touches of pearls, crystals, semiprecious stones, and more…