Can you describe your profession?

Agnès Beziers: I take care of the design of costumes for contemporary, or period, offbeat or genre films. It is a bit broad, as a field of action ... In summary, it is mainly the artistic creation of the set of costumes for a film. That is to say, I must recount by the garment the score of all the characters and the different sets in which the figuration intervenes.

It starts from a close collaboration with the director for which I work. He tells me his vision and his film color, he gives me all he has in mind: his staging, his desires, his desire to feel a character in such and such a way, his frames, his cutting.

Then I propose models and materials for each character, moodboards for figuration tables. At that moment, the codes of the costume were kept.

I must be at the fairest in relation to his vision and it is necessary above all that the costume serves the purpose of the film.

With each project, I write a new novel with a very precise costume grammar, strong points in colors and materials, in cut and style! I often say that I build my costumes according to a "grammar" because in fact, I like to have my trends and my colors, and I rely all the time on this rigor that leads to the color design of the costumes. In short, I have fun, I love my job and I am passionate!

I work with Nicolas Bary since his ^2nd short film, it's been 15 years it gives me confidence in each of its projects. He is a very demanding director on aesthetics, he likes to have fun, he likes the details, he likes fashion, he is hyper curious! He is very attached to the costume being told, and that this support makes us travel. He has a very precise and relevant eye. It is a real pleasure to work with a director who has a very advanced vision, a certain taste in the artistic way. It is a language that I understand and with which I try, for each project, to propose the costume design the most just for everyone.

Does working with children change your mission?

It's the same mission as with adults, but kids have a lot less restraint. These are rough diamonds with their personality! Working with children is a mix of discovery and improvisation! They are so natural, with well-tempered characters, boils and expressions that it becomes a very inspiring field of action. I love the first encounter because I see children in their own juice, without filter. We talk about the character they are going to play, they tell me how they see it. These are very interesting, very spontaneous anecdotes. Afterwards, I compose on them the partition of dress. I am always fascinated to see the character being built during fittings ... it is a moment always full of emotions!

On Le Petit Spirou , at the beginning Sacha (Sacha Pinault, who plays Le Petit Spirou, ed) was not so interested in the costume part. He discovered, as the fittings, what became a groom required. It was also the dramatic stake of the film, this child who will have to fit in a mold. And he, he does not want it, he wants to continue to amuse himself with his friends. Sacha was at the same stage as the Little Spirou!

To incarnate the costume of groom and to transcribe it in reality on this child, that was all the stake! How can we live in reality a character we know, so emblematic, and transpose it into reality? The creators of the Comic Tome and Janry adore its transposition in the real: successful bet!

What brands of children's fashion inspired you for the costumes of the Little Spirou?

I had in mind child brands that seemed obvious to me to enter the universe of the film. I wanted a modern, a rereading of the iconic pieces! Not a lame work, but a sharp choice concerning every detail ranging from printed matter, fabric, material and cut to accessory. I do not know how to do otherwise, I like the universes that are creative, sharp and poetic. So, my choice quickly turned to Very French Gangsters for glasses, and the creative and modern work of its designer and artistic director Karoline Bothorel-Bolzinger. Our main roles are Vertignasse, Ponchelot, Éléonore and André-Baptiste wear VFG and it suits them too well!

Billieblush and Billybandit also accompanied me on this adventure, their collection was top for the Little Spirou! I also took Quenotte with superb pieces for girls and boys. I had cracked on Young Soles, an English brand of children's shoes just too beautiful. The Little Spirou wears Young Soles when he is trapped in his groom costume, all my English school is shod in Young Soles, one of Jim Brioul's pals wears Young Soles, Eléonore and André-Baptiste wear Young Soles. In short, I love this brand and it could also give the UK touch that looks like me! Veja is the second brand of sneakers for children that has a very important part in the film, at the feet of our kids. When the Little Spirou decides to take control of his destiny, he hands over his Veja, which is his own identity. He finds his true nature, his true look and then, he customizes his groom costume to become a superhero somewhere (as Suzette would say)!

I love children's fashion, I find that brands burst out in materials, colors, prints. They create collections and campaigns as you create characters on movies. In the universe of Nicolas (Nicolas Bary, the director, editor's note), the real is always sublimated. It must make children and adults dream. So, creating the costumes too!

You chose to dress the famous little groom of a red less lively than in the comic, why?

Since the start, it was known that treating the color of the costume literally as the red of the comic would not be a good idea. Because the treatment of a comic and a film is not the same. We do not have the same constraints, on the screen a real red spit. It is absolutely necessary to give a hue and density to the red in a near but staggered range. The obviousness of the red that tends towards the bordeaux, with the subtle touch of the point of raspberry, imposed itself on Nico: it was his reco. For the little Spirou, I found a textured Italian fabric in beautiful dry wool for his jacket and a crazy Italian cotton with a density hyper sportswear for his Bermuda shorts. The parents and Grand Papy, meanwhile, wear English woolens in this range of less intense red.

And so Pierre Richard in purple pompon moccasins !?

You saw how beautiful he is, with his moccasins of house with purple pompon? It is the magic of the pieces that shoppe. I came across this pair of blue velvet loafers so chic in a store Consignment of the ^9th district of Paris. They made me crack right away, and it's so funny with this purple tassel detail! It is a dedication to all the tender, burlesque, childish and funny side of Grandpa, so well interpreted by Pierre Richard. It suited him so well that they were soon adopted!

The addresses of Agnès Beziers for the Little Spirou

POUMPILATA

9, rue de Paris

93230 Romainville

It is a boutique of accessories (jewelry, bags, decoration) nestled in the heart of the village of Romainville, just a 5 minute walk from my home. Charlotte Babu makes a very nice selection of designers, she has a very right eye in the trend and she knows to find some lovely new very sharp. I cracked at her on the earrings of the designer Gaëlle Quemeneur for Armelle who played the role of the clairvoyant. It was so obvious that the clairvoyant had to wear these curls!

CINNABAR

20, rue d'Hauteville

75010 Paris

01 48 24 72 28

A very nice discovery! I met Alexandre Chapellier through one of the producers who spoke to me and said, "Go see, it's canon what he does! "Indeed, canonissime! The creator works from Made in France with all the generosity and the very wise choice of beautiful materials on a collection of ties, bow ties and flowers in the buttonhole, all more successful than the others. He made me for the film a whole series of bow ties that I installed on headbands for all the little girls at the groom school treated very English. The result is magic!

MANISH ARORA

5, rue Rouget de L'Isle

75001 Paris

09 83 48 57 13

My darling ! I always love what he tells about each of his collections. He has a look so out of sync and poetic. It has a very pronounced taste for colors and hand work. He is a storyteller, he makes us travel. His pieces are incredible! He had the kindness to lend me some of them to have them carried to the seer.