– Frédérique is redefining what nail art can be with artful skill and a playful sense of humour.
Much like her work, the beginning of Frédérique's career as a nail artist was unconventional. For her 2010 graduation project at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, she created an art installation that resembled a nail salon in which she showcased her work. “From then on my interest in manicures as a medium for my art started to grow,” she says. After experimenting on herself and her friends, her interest turned into an obsession with experimental manicures.
Her years spent at an art academy had in no way prepared Frédérique for the transition to the fashion industry. “Art school had taught me that what’s sellable isn’t art,” she says. “I spent years there unlearning how to decorate and make things prettier. Now I’m very thankful for that, because my approach to creating nail art is much more conceptual, or at times very intuitive. It’s something that definitely sets me apart from more traditional manicurists.
When she started working on fashion shows and editorial shoots, Frédérique could finally let her freak flag fully fly and create nail art with no limits to her creativity. The result? The impossibly long rhinestone bedazzled
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