Les Aventures de Mathilde & Co.

Agnès B, Collection Printemps-été 2014Le tissu Shweshwe (prononcé isishweshwe en Xhosa) est un tissu de coton épais, qui se distingue aujourd'hui par ses couleurs vibrantes et ses motifs géométriques répétitifs et variés.Le tissu est introduit en Afrique du Sud par les Européens au XIXe siècle (le Blaudrukt). Les missionnaires français en offrent au roi Sotho Moshoeshoe 1er, vers 1840 et le tissu est désormais baptisé «...

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Little South African Girls in France. ShweShwe Dress by Mathilde & Co. And just like that, in the middle of a business course, inspiration struck. I was discussing my website, my product, my blog post…  started reading my latest post… well let me tell you, Mathilde & Co is still alive – and I think I am too! ...

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6 months down the line… my girls wear shoes!!! In fact, they’re becoming down right wusses. Am I doing the right thing? A question every mother asks herself, so I might as well relax. My impulsive personality and rash decisions can only be character building for my girls, right…? Perhaps the “MOM! Stop dancing when you’re driving!!!!!” or “yes, I’d love a drink...

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When I started Mathilde & Co, I lived in a small village on the border of the Klein Karoo desert in South Africa. There wasn’t much work available if you couldn’t work from home or for yourself as an entrepreneur. It took me 6 years, but I did both. I haven’t set foot full-time in an office for the last 13 years, nor do...

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Life seems to go through me in phases of about 8 years. I left home at 17 to go and study, and then work in France. In my eighth year in Paris I suddenly panicked on my way to work. Was this to be my life? Like the 60 something man reading his newspaper each day on the train, who only disappeared every...

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Emerging from the Hurricane Seven weeks has passed already since the birth of little Apolline. Hence my being blissfully quiet all this time. Time? What time? I have been smoothly thrust (yes, the birth was “gentle”, as gentle as the worst, debilitating contractions can be, that is) into the hurricane which has hit my life for the past 2 months. What was I...

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