Isabel Marant: ‘Playing around with garments was my way of making people notice me’

‘I’m very French. I make pot au feu or blanquette’: Isabel Marant. Photograph: Dudi Hasson

I had a beautiful and loving childhood. I wasn’t raised by my mother. She left when I was only five, so I lived with my father and stepmother. But I saw Mum every other weekend and my parents got on super-well. We often went on holidays together. It wasn’t a problem.

Mum was super-cool. It was the 1980s, she wore a lot of Kenzo. All those blouses, flowers, colour… A lot of red. I love red because of her.