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222 || FASHION MAGAZINE || MARCH 2015 rowing up, Celine never envisioned herself as a makeup artist. Drawing all the time, she imagined being a cartoonist. Nevertheless, she found magazines and beauty very appealing. When we asked her about the importance of early education to the arts, she considered it an act of therapy. %u201cSince my early years, art had a calming effect, stimulating and nurturing enthusiasm and reflection.%u201d She found art essential to her daily balance. Celine graduated from London%u2019s Saint Martin%u2019s art school which boasts notable alumni such as Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, and John Galliano. Feeling inspired by photography to broaden her artistic taste, she spent time in London, Paris, and Berlin. Each of these cities held its specific culture and interest. While in Paris, she embraced the savoir fair and elegance of the fashion and hand made products. %u201cParisians have an effortless, relaxed chic, inspiring, and a temporal style.%u201d Charpentier considers fashion a space of creativity as fine art but also design, architecture, cinema, music, and literature. She describes it beautifully as an assemblage of texture, lines, patterns, and colors that you can find in a painting or photographic composition. She goes on to say, %u201cA face or a body is a canvas where it is possible to combine colors, pigments, matte, or iridescent textures to enhance highlights and shadows. I By Denise Smith