“Autumn is the season of the soul,” Friedrich Nietzsche wrote and indeed this is the time when we direct our attention to the inner world of our thoughts and emotions, preparing to look back at the year to take stock. And what a year 2020 has been! This beautiful series of still lifes is the result of a collaboration between photographer Yvonne Dumas Milne Edwards and florist Jefferson Fouquet. “For our collaboration we tried to work on the sensuality of veils and the play of shadows,” Yvonne explains. Follow us to this nostalgic and delicate space that inspires memoirs and daydreams. Enjoy!
Yvonne Dumas Milne Edwards is a Parisian who graduated from the Ecole des Gobelins in photography in 2020. She is fascinated by the processes of scientific study as well as the beauty of the natural world.
Jefferson Fouquet studied horticulture before becoming a florist. His artistic vocabulary is based on the deconstruction of classical codes. He creates radical effects by immersing flowers in urban universes and he is known for the sculptural qualities of his floral compositions.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Yvonne Dumas Milne Edwards, @yvonnedumasmilneedwards
SET DESIGN & STYLING: @jefferson_fouquet
“Every flower blooms in its own time.”
Ken Petti
01. Chloé: Fleur de Parfum
The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goddess fare more vividly than any human lips.
—Albert Schweitzer
PERFUMERS: Mylène Alran, Michel Almairac
YEAR: 2016
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02. Chloé: Nomade
Life starts over again
when it gets crisp in the fall.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
PERFUMER: Quentin Bisch
YEAR: 2018
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03. Chloé: Love Story
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
—L.M. Montgomery
PERFUMER: Anne Flipo
YEAR: 2014
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04. Chloé: Rose Tangerine
And all the lives
we ever lived
and all the lives to be
are full of trees
and falling leaves.
—Virginia Woolf
PERFUMERS: Sidonie Lancesseur, Michel Almairac
YEAR: 2020
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05. Chloé: Nomade
I don’t know how
you grow flowers inside of me.
—Gemma Troy
PERFUMER: Quentin Bisch
YEAR: 2018
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