After a whirlwind romance in 2014, interior designer Loretta Genovesi, 38, quit her job in Melbourne and moved to Paris to be with French entrepreneur Nicolas Collignon, 40. They’re now parents to one-year-old Antony.
In Paris, he asked me out on a date. I thought it would be one night: it wasn’t. I emailed work twice to extend my trip. Nicolas proposed in 2018 when we were on holiday in Greece. Our wedding was a three-day celebration in a chateau at Béville-le-Comte, one hour south-west of Paris, with fireworks over the lake. It was a fairy tale beginning.We bought a place in the 15th arrondissement, which I’ve renovated and decorated, and my design business has grown through word of mouth. My dad and grandfather were Italian-migrant builders; I feel as if I’m carrying on that tradition.
I’d been single for a while and was ready to share my life with somebody. She lived in Australia, but that wasn’t a major inconvenience for me. I wasn’t really thinking about what would happen in six months or a year or 10 years. It just happened. ‘I tried to make her less homesick by taking her to a restaurant called Fish and Chic. The food wasn’t very Australian at all.’Our crazy holidays are our best memories. Our first trip was to Uluru. In the desert, it was my job to read the map and I didn’t realise the dotted line is for four-wheel drives; we had a small city car. We drove four or five hours until we came to a little town where I had my first meat pie, but from then on, the road was gravel.
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