French “floral fashion” designer Cyrill Tronchet wanted to be an interior designer, but a twist of fate steered him from furnishings to flowers…and the rest is already history.
We caught up with Cyrill during a busy week and asked him what he loves most about his special  “metier”, and how his talent launched him from a part-time job in a French flower shop to the catwalk.
Photo credit (above) 

Model Maisie Daniels, Photographer Arron Dunworth

 

Cyrill Tronchet photo by Jakub Koziels
 
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CYRILL TRONCHET
 
1. When was your first “coup de foudre” (love at first sight) with flowers, do you remember" How did it lead to your signature “flower couture”.  I started floristry 12 years ago. I was dreaming of being an interior designer, but the studies were too long, and I really wanted to be creative. A friend of my parents is a florist in the town where I?m from (Le Mans-France), and when she opened her flower shop, I was helping her overtime, for free. I guess that’s how it started.  Then I did floristry school for 4 years, where I spent one week at school and 3 weeks in a florist’s.
The “Flower Couture” started a long time after that, actually since I?ve been in London (6 years). I was installing flowers for luxury hotel when I worked at McQueens, and a lot of flowers were still beautiful after one week at the hotel…so I kept them and t...