Nathalie Saphier

Greater Los Angeles Area United States

Owner & Designer at Replica Los Angeles

Born & bred in LA, I lived in Paris for 14 years working mostly as an in-house or freelance designer in the fashion industry, working with clients such as Sonia Rykiel, Christophe Lemaire, Gaspard Yurkievich & Isabel Marant, for whom I have been working recurrently as consultant and designer since 1997. I launched my first eponymous collection in 2000—a mash-up of couture sensibility seen through the glittery lens of Ziggy Stardust and Biba, with a dash of Gallic swagger. It was featured in several publications, among them Elle US, NYT Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar. I moved back to L.A. in 2001. Shortly thereafter, I took a hiatus from designing to focus on building my career as an edito...