We have known each other for a long time with Agnès. She followed the beginnings of ME.LAND, as a friend, wrote the bio of the creator and supported with all her good humor the birth of the project. We asked her to pose for ME.LAND and it was with pleasure that she agreed to lend her aura to our MEAKER in burgundy patent calfskin for a photo shoot at the Jean-Jacques Henner National Museum.

Agnès began an internship at Radio Canada on September 11, 2001. Unable to send any reporter there after the ban on flights to the United States, Radio France asked her to leave Montreal the same day to cover the New York attacks. Her career was launched!

She joined France Inter Radio and from 2004 presented the news from 7:30 am until 2009 before joining RTL Radio to replace Pascale Clark at the morning press review. From 2014 to 2019, she hosted RTL Grand Soir from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. before resuming in 2019 the presentation of the news for the morning weekend.

Agnes is also a music fan, in 2009, she sang on a track for the group Weepers Circus. She created the band Lazy Days in which she sang with the journalist and writer François Thomazeau.

Thank you Agnès!

Agnes Bonfillon

ME.LAND asked several artists from the French music scene to take the pose. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them have posed with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred.

With her colorful personality and her touch of everything, Rosy Boop perfectly represents the DNA of ME.LAND. She decided to put the spotlight on the DEBUT sneaker, for its contemporary side, as well as the MEAKER in red leopard and black version, WILD !!

A true showgirl, Rosy is an actress, singer, programmer and author. Her latest project is a single on stage "Betty Boop, the Strange Cabaret", a pocket musical that combines humor, songs, dance and thrills. She had a great tour and the opening act for Dionysus with this fantastic cabaret. A new musical show is in preparation. To be continued…

Rosy Boop

ME.LAND asked several artists from the French music scene to take the pose. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them have taken the pose with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred. 

DAM: two passions, Fashion and Music. Passionate about Fashion and Music, Dam moved to Paris in 2000 to work in these two worlds (Karl Lagerfeld, Marithé & François Girbaud, Sonia Rykiel, Dirk Bikkembergs).

Like DAM, we are passionate and everything we do we do with our heart. It was quite normal to meet and work together. Dam has chosen to pose with HEAKER or with the new DEBUT model with sports lines.

Soundtracker since the age of 16, it was in the Latino temple in Paris that Dam took off alongside Carlos Campos from Barrio Latino, for 2 years. After a "Latin House" debut, DAM is moving towards a musical style more in his image, "Electro jazz".

In 2005 he founded his new musical project Dj Live: DamDistrict in collaboration with the legendary Duo of Café Del Mar (Ibiza): La Caiña.

Dam District

Ten years ago, Adrienne Pauly sang "J’veux un mec", she was nominated for the Victoires de la Musique and marked the spirits with her endearing and incandescent personality. She has since shot films, with Chabrol, Depardieu, Cornillac, Besnehard. She also sang, the Rita alongside Lavilliers and Adamo. She will return soon with an album that we dare not wait any longer.

We can blame her but we will forgive her as it is such a pleasure to see her. Because with Adrienne Pauly, we love each other very much, we love each other badly, we love each other too much, but love is there! Tender or cruel, full of passion or "there is nothing"! Terrifying and funny ... From "the excusemoihiste" to this girl who would like "to forget the hours, to forget that one dies" her songs are not the reflection of her life, they are life in short and that's why we love her.

When we asked Adrienne to take the pose for ME.LAND, she didn't hesitate for a moment, she came to the Jean-Jacques Henner Museum like at home and posed proudly, with her black MEAKERs on her feet!

Adrienne Pauly

ME.LAND asked several artists from the French music scene to take the pose. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them has taken the pose with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred.

When we presented our project to Abel Cheret, he immediately accepted. A real pleasure to work with such a nice artist. His choice immediately fell on the new model of the season: DEBUT, with its sportier line as well as on a new combination of the DEAKER model.

We really appreciate Abel Cheret for his Histoires d’Amour Ultra Chelou on tropical rhythms. Nonchalance in the voice and in the quickdraw. Between Souchon, Katerine or even Tellier. Abel Cheret is animated by «the feeling of love and this in an absolutely exclusive way. Heart and ass tumbling, verbal somersaults and sensual twists and turns, bittersweet melodies and tropical electropop hits.» (Patrice Demailly, Liberation). The title Western Eros, a masturbatory epic against a backdrop of a spaghetti western, has been enchanting the waves of France Inter Radio since the beginning of summer. After having been invited by Vanessa Paradis and Severin in the first part of their concerts.

Abel Cheret is on the concert route allover France.

Abel Cheret

ME.LAND asked several artists from the French music scene to take the pose. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them have taken the pose with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred.

The Rodeo is the anagram of Dorothée, a mischievous self-taught musician and Parisian singer. After being noticed in English with her first two albums recorded in the four corners of the world "Music Maelström" (Naïve) and "La Musica Del Diavolo" (Claro Oscuro), her third album entitled "Thérianthropie Paradis" (Claro Oscuro), sung entirely in French and influenced by European pop rich in orchestrations from the 60's / 70's, marks a real turning point. The album is exported and concerts are followed in particular abroad (Germany, United Kingdom, South Korea, Brazil ...). A new fourth album entitled "Arlequine" has been release in 2022 to hear the thousand facets of a seasoned musician.

THE RODEO accompanied us with her kindness on our shoot and the making of a film at the Jean-Jacques Henner National Museum with ORFEU. An incredible match between a seasoned artist and an artistic and multidisciplinary place. For the shoot, her choice fell on the new model in the collection, DEBUT, as well as the high HEAKER sneakers in a more feminine and winter version.

The Rodeo

ME.LAND asked several artists from the French music scene to take the pose. We did not want to erase or get the property their characters, each of them have taken the pose with his/her own look and have chosen the shoes they preferred.

ME.LAND propose a first step towards singularity. The shoes are made in limited series. An alternative, couture and unique style, different and exclusive color combinations on each model. And this is what we found in the music of ORFEU, an artist from Lisbon immigration, anchored in the popular Paris of the 20th arrondissement. To pose, ORFEU chose the new model of the collection, DEBUT, for its sporty and contemporary side.

Charismatic lead singer of NEÏMO band with 3 albums including a duet with the French icon singer DANI and numerous collaborations with Karl Lagerfeld, Bruno Alexandre launches into a new project: ORFEU. An elegant and sunny French pop, with subtly 90's flavors, distilled by Sourya during the production. Both incisive and bittersweet, cradled in saudade, his texts decant the amorous and societal disillusions of the beginning of the century. His first single, “Samothrace” dances with the rules of romantic relationships in 2020, between punchlines and melancholy.

It is this single that brings sound to the images of our collection shot at the Jean-Jacques Henner Museum in Paris. ORFEU meets THE RODEO, two artists to follow!

ORFEU

ME.LAND is much more than simple shoes. From the mix of inspirations, materials and colours emerges a daily behaviour. The philosophy of this adventure is quite simple : Stay on the tracks ? Follow the rules ? Why not. Provided that there is no way, one can erase his own character.

ME.LAND works with artists from the French music scene. Margaux Simone has agreed to take th epose in ME.LAND. No question of erasing or appropriating her personality, she posed with her own look and chose the pairs she wanted. Her choice immediately fell on our iconic MEAKER in a girly pink and the DEAKER for its mix of recycled materials and white, pink and turquoise colors that makes it unique and unexpected.

Margaux Simone invites us to travel into her new Modern Golden Age. Her EP with varied atmospheres, where each song can be heard like a short film. The characters and the sets are anchored in her native Riviera, which she likes to portray as a “Provence California” inhabitated by disco divas from the 70s, synthesizers from the 80s, reminding us the soundtracks of science fiction films.

Margaux has been following ME.LAND for several years, she wears it in concerts, she also lent us her music for our SS20 and SS21 campaigns. Thank you Margaux, we love you!

Margaux Simone

Emilie is a French singer. She has release her second album. Poetry of the words, rock n'roll attitude. Sensible and savage. 

Emilie Marsh, is first sweetness in the voice mix with the energy of a GuitarHero. A song that run through your body as an electrical choc.

A rock Punk attitude Emilie Marsh and Myriam Moutoulatchimy, the MIMI MYMY project, offered ME.LAND for an exclusive video. Thank you!

Emilie Marsh

Gerald Kurdian, musician, performer and photographer, has studied visual arts at l’Ensapc before joinjing the contemporary dance company Ex.e.r.ce under the direction of Mathilde Monnier and Xavier Le Roy. Since then, he realsed an album – This is the hello monster!, Icosaèdre -, makes oblique concerts – Royal Gala (2005), 1999 (2009), 18 Chansons (2010), My first club- song ever (2011), The Magic of Spectacular Theater (2012), La Solidité des choses (2014), Les Îles Artificielles (2015), Hot Bodies – Stand up (2018) - research playfull synergies inbetween electronic music and performances with the obsession of a documentary vision. He does so during live performances (Crossing the Line – New York, Le Centquatre – Paris, Festival des Inaccoutumés – Paris, etc), contemporary art places (Centre Pompidou – Metz, Fondation Cartier, etc) or independants music spots (Musiques Volantes, 6par4, etc). 

In 2017, he started a trans-disciplinary research project arround sexual revolutions – HOT BODIES OF THE FUTURE! – and organise parties – A QUEER BALL FOR HOT BODIES OF THE FUTURE! – to honour all LGBTQIEA+ minorities as well as all the ones who support and love them. 

He currently works on his new album under the name of GAERALD (ex-Tarek_x). 

Gerald accepted to photography the ME.LAND first collection over colorfull backgrounds and bring his own poetic and strange universe into ours.

Designer, illustrator and colorist. Marie de Lignerolles has been trained at Olivier de Serres texil design school, and to Design at ENSCI in Paris. After her graduation, she was appointed by the creation studio of BHV & Galeries Lafayette to work on furnitures, tablewear and lamps. She then joined Hermes for the design of the special orders. In 2007 she decided to work as a freelancer and helped clients such as Monoprix or Hermes, but also more confidential project such as ME.LAND, Atelier Sauvage or Atimon on their artwork creation. She also teaches colours to young designers. 

Marie made exclusive artworks for ME.LAND to express our values and put up together our seasonal look book. The color is our common bias.

mariedelignerolles

Jef Ouest gave us his music expertise to create a unique sound track SUPERSTAR to support ME.LAND. This soundtrack is  wrapping the images made by Chloé Robineau who have been filming Montmartre good boys with a rebel hart all day long.

His voice, his phrasing, his tunes make him recognisable immediately. Jef Ouest (ex La Casa) is a man of his era. His poetry goes directly into your hart without being spouted nor confused. After his first EP, released in 2017 and more than 40 concerts, Jef Ouest comes back with a new song «Populaire» produced by Camille Ballon and put into images by Choé Robineau. Double listening and double vision, this song with a catchy name is an artistic change.

More than being a loyal customer, Gooz also dressed the images of Chloé Robineau for the Bright Fluo collection of ME.LAND. His piece called MIDNIGHT POURSUITE responds to the tone of the Spring Summer collection and transports us into his resolutely electro-pop, heady, powerful and organic universe.

As a good DIY sound alchemist, Gooz builds his own synthesizers. He kneads the raw material to extract the particular sounds that come to feed his compositions. Pieces full of poetry on which hang a voice, his. A voice with charming pop 80 deliciously obsolete, naive and yet realistic. It tells us about love with modesty and sensitivity. It cradles us and comforts us, then carries us towards a better world, from darkness to light ...

Gooz just release his new single 22h22.

Gooz_Fleche

Gilles Crampes has participated on several campaigns shooting for ME.LAND. He really has taken the hit on the light, colors and body expressions to enhance our collections. 

Gilles Crampes is a photographer specialised in in-depth sociological and ethnological reports. He has alternated international reporting, assignments and personal projects since 1994. His reports have been published in international press such as Newsweek, National Geographic France, Géo, The Independent, Le Monde, Grands Reportage etc. Following from his international reporting where he illustrated Paris on the most curious ways –a 7 year work dedicated to Pigalle, Paris seen from heights of historical buildings…-, Gilles Crampes is currently concentrating on the different peoples living in Paris who originally emigrated from all over the world. His purpose here is to illustrate the cultural richness that has ensued, but also to study the preservation of these exiled cultures in Paris focusing upon their secular, spiritual or religious aspects. 

This project is part of a personal work, with great series calling for reflection on the notion of travelling, that he has been developping for more than ten years. After Transient States –a series addressing consumerism in travels and images- Waterfront –paying homage to the first great maritime explorers and the local population encountered- Paris Célébrations is a series offering travel in reverse where peoples and cultures from all the continents inetwine in Paris, creating a World within a City. The project grew into a book published by Magellan & Company in November 2016.

Gilles Crampes