Christian Louboutin: the tiger rug that stole my heart

My Kachina dolls embody my childhood urge to travel
Kachinas come from North America, where they were made by tribes such as the Hopi as representations of divine spirits. The earliest examples are a thousand years old and made of stone. Mine, which date from the late 19th and early 20th century, are made of wood and decorated with feathers, beads, fur and felt. I’ve been collecting them for more than 25 years, and love them for their very graphic design. They also take me back to my childhood. Growing up in Brittany in France, I always wanted to travel. On my way to school there was a travel agency and I’d often come home with a brochure and start to plan a journey. Most of the places I wanted to visit contained traces of lost civilisations in the forms of sculptures and totems – Easter Island, Egypt, parts of India. These dolls are symbols of that early desire for faraway places.