"Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal."
Diana Vreeland



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Based in Paris, France, Marguerite Sauvage has worked since 2001 as an illustrator, artist and animator creating chic modern illustrations that capture the lifestyle of today's trendsetters. Her eye-catching work is soft yet powerful, combining sophisticated European sensibilities with line-work inspired by both traditional Japanese art and contemporary Japanese culture. The result is a well-edited, light line, an eye honed to current trends in fashion, sport and design, and colorfully cosmopolitan characters rendered with a delicate hand.

Marguerite grew up in the French countryside near the small town of Coulommiers, east of Paris. She drew throughout her childhood and teenage years, particularly comics inspired by Japanese animation and European comics. A self-taught illustrator, she originally studied law and communications, and did not decide that illustration was her best means of self-expression until she graduated from University in 2001. Her name, which translates to 'daisy' in English, is indicative of her personality and her likes. She admires the strong, beautiful and feminine in life and as inspiration for her artwork. She cites the Japanese artist and animator Rumiko Takahashi as one of her main influences, saying it was Takahashi's "Lum" which inspired her to start drawing and which influenced her style of coloring in the shoulders and knees of her figures. Japan has not been her only influence, she has been inspired by travel in Thailand, Czechoslovakia Morocco and USA as well, and says everyday life is probably her biggest source of inspiration. "Happiness and anti-stress: I just want to make things prettier." she says.

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