Japan, and more particularly its capital Tokyo, was undoubtedly the starting point of the Atelier St Eustache adventure. The first collection of the brand is named after it, but do you know why? The adventure began in 2013, when the designer decided to live in Tokyo for a year for her last year of architecture school. It was an experience as exotic as it was enriching. Japan also made Violette discover a new culture, both in terms of lifestyle and Japanese clothing habits. There, she fell in love with a small accessory: the transparent sock. The Japanese women showed their socks from every angle by associating them with sandals and open pumps. After this year full of discoveries, Violette came back to France with a lot of ideas. She wanted to create her own brand of transparent socks, convinced that the French would also be conquered by this little accessory a little atypical. And to pay tribute to the city that transformed her life, she imagined her first creations under the sign of Japan. The first six designs of Atelier St Eustache transparent socks are therefore associated with buildings and districts of Tokyo. Each model has its name and tells a little story. The Asakusa design reproduces the architecture of the Asakusa cultural center, a building built by a famous architect who was also one of Violette's professors at Todai University of Japan, Kengo Kuma. The design of the Ginza represents the eponymous district, at night, with its illuminated windows, through which Violette used to return every night by bicycle. A district of high buildings where you feel really small. The pair of Nakameguro socks is a tribute to the cherry blossoms flying on the Nakameguro canal. A magical and timeless moment when these mythical Sakuras bloom. The Shibuya model represents the Shibuya crosswalk and its famous diagonal, which prevents passers-by from crossing it twice. When the light turns green, the crowd movements have something very poetic, especially when it rains and the Japanese take out their umbrellas with a thousand colors. The Shinjuku model illustrates the district of the same name and the luminous signs of the many businesses located there. A very lively district, full of shops and overflowing with life. And finally, the Tokyo pair of socks was born at the crossroads between all these previous models. It gathers the motifs of each district (the surface, the checkerboard, the dot and the line) in a shape corresponding to the surface of these famous districts.