Jacques-Marie Hans

See my portfolio: jacquesmariehans.com

Designer and art director, I work at the intersection of disciplines. Between 2021 and 2025, I pursued four practices simultaneously, without ever wanting to choose: embroidery, knitwear, image, and objects.

In Madagascar, I managed an embroidery workshop (6 to 10 people) for major fashion houses — Chanel, Dior, Jacquemus, Loro Piana. There, I learned as much about leading a team as about leading stitches: maintaining excellence at a distance, translating intention into gestures, trusting hands more skilled than my own. In parallel, in the French countryside, I founded Studio Arcadie, my brand of French merino wool jacquard knitwear (Stoll training, Gaïa, Atlantide, Nyx series), driven by a real demand for traceability and eco-design — a project even featured in a TF1 documentary.

Art direction is the other facet: surface design, ready-to-wear, visual identity, photography, and set design. I position my gaze between photography and impressionism — the precision of the frame, the blur of sensation.

Today, I extend this gesture towards objects with FONT, a made-to-order furniture project (Fusion 360, 3D printing).

What I bring is rare to find together: haute couture craftsmanship, the industrial reality of knitwear, an art director's eye, and current manufacturing tools. I intervene on both intention and execution — directing a team, coding a machine, or framing an image. I am looking for assignments where this versatility is a strength: for houses and brands that need a transversal perspective, connecting material, product, and image.