3.PARADIS & The Little Prince

The journey doesn’t transform us by where it leads, but by the quiet trace it leaves within.

The Little Prince imposed itself in the middle of working on Steps to Nowhere, almost naturally — because the questions Saint-Exupéry asks are exactly the ones I ask myself with every collection: what are we really looking for when we leave? What remains, once we've arrived?

This book shares the same obsessions as Steps to Nowhere. The necessity of solitude. The belief that wonder is still a valid response to the world. The way we learn to see familiar things differently when we allow ourselves to stop. 

More than a reference, it became a dialogue — unfolding into a capsule collection conceived as quiet extensions of the story. Not to narrate, but to evoke. To capture what cannot be held — a fleeting emotion, a suspended moment — and give it form. 

Entering the world of the Little Prince was an honor. I dare hope that this mythical character would have worn our cap to protect himself from the sun — and since I couldn't draw him a sheep, I was glad to draw him some clothes instead.

The traveler we draw is not the one who leaves with a plan. It's the one shaped by movement — who comes back different, not because they reached a goal, but because the journey left its mark, quietly. I wanted each piece in this capsule to feel like a turned page in a travel journal.

The Little Prince crosses deserts, visits absurd planets, meets people who have forgotten how to look. Saint-Exupéry never glorified the destination. He was interested in what happens before.

— Emeric Tchatchoua, Founder & Creative Director