 Coming from a family of farmers, she spent her childhood in the small village of Normée.In 1988, she decided to continue her studies in Paris at the ENSCI (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle) and obtained her diploma as an industrial designer in 1991.She then joined Denis Santachiara's studio in Milan in 1992 for a year, before joining Philippe Starck's studio in Paris in 1993 where she was appointed head of the Thomson Multimedia project, then Tim Thom, Thomson's design center.