Briar PACCALIN

English teacher

Briar believes that even before her apparition into the world she must have been soothed by the regular stop start whirr of a sewing machine. Growing up in a creative arts & crafts environment in the UK it was with glee that at ten she was using her mother’s Japanese all singing, all dancing electric sewing machine! The illustrations of both an antique Encylopedia of needlework by Theresa de Dillmont and the patterns of Simplicity, MacCall and Vogue became the references of her childhood.

Teaching English as a foreign language became a passport to travel and the experience of living in other cultures, 2008 bringing the fortunate opportunity of combining her personal and professional interests by entering the creative environment of Esmod Lyon as English teacher. Faced with a lack of fashion data banks at a professional level, she set about creating her own, with emphasis on the visual, responding over the years to a multitude of queries as they arose in the classroom, laying the foundation for a bilingual and visual fashion lexicon with ESMOD Editions.