OLIVIA BIDOU
OLIVIA BIDOU, PHOTO STYLIST AND CERAMIST
My friend for almost 20 years, we met at Capucine Puerari's where we were doing an end-of-study internship.
THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE REVISITED
1. What is your idea of happiness?
Keep one foot in childhood and be comfortable with yourself.
2. What is your main characteristic?
Gentleness is my main characteristic.
3. What do you appreciate most about your friends?
Their kindness, their gentleness and their honesty.
4. What is your main flaw?
Being late, especially when I meet up with my boyfriend Antoine, people who are late are time wasters, I know, it's bad, I'm making progress.
5. What quality do you value most in a man or a woman?
The second degree.
6. What is your main dream?
To be even happier.
7. How would you like to die?
I would like to die before I become senile.
8. What is your current state of mind?
Currently, I feel good because I am near my dog Pia who is sleeping and who brings me immense love.
9. What is the biggest obstacle you have overcome?
The disappearance of my father.
10. What is your favorite song or piece of art?
The list is long... I particularly like Francis Bacon's triptychs, this painter touches me a lot.
11. What is your greatest accomplishment?
To know myself better and better, to leave myself alone (I do my best), to recognize my qualities and my faults.
12. What is your favorite word?
Sun and balloon. When I was little, I used to draw a sky full of suns and I was obsessed with anything that flew, like hot air balloons, airplanes, etc.
13. What do you hate the most?
Cruelty to animals, gratuitous malice and bad faith.
14. What is your motto?
To live happily, let us live hidden.
15. What are you thinking about right now?
I think about taking Pia out, who is still sleeping with a soft snore.
16. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
I would stop animal abuse.
17. What is your biggest regret?
I regret not having known my father well enough.
18. What is your greatest creative desire?
To set up an artists' collective and make a living from one of my passions: ceramics.
19. Which model from the Mazorcas collection do you prefer?
My favorite Mazorcas piece from the Le Bistro collection is the Quentin sweater .
