Hélène Marchand
Three decades in classical European aesthetics, the last fifteen years teaching the discipline to a new generation.
The path to the Maison.
Hélène Marchand began her practice on rue Saint-Honoré in 1994, where she trained under Marie-Claire Dubois at the school that would become the model for what we now call the European tradition. She holds a doctorate in cutaneous biology from the Université Paris-Cité.
After fifteen years in private practice she was appointed Director of Studies at the Académie d'Esthétique Classique, where she taught dermal anatomy and the philosophy of touch for a decade before joining Maison Academy as Faculty Chair.
Her published work on the lipid matrix of the epidermal barrier is taught at three of the European reference schools. She lives in the 6th arrondissement and writes a quarterly letter for the Atelier journal.
The skin is not the surface of the body. It is the body's argument with the world.
- Doctorat, Biologie Cutanée — Université Paris-Cité
- CIDESCO Diploma · Distinction
- Founding Fellow, IPHM
- Author — Le Toucher Discipliné (2019)