A-Z: Clémence Polès of Passerbuys

Illustrations by Alexandra Peace

With an appetite for people-watching and an urge to circumvent the fabricated lifestyle of social media influencers and bloggers, Clémence Polès created Passerbuys, a platform dedicated to featuring honest, creative women within various industries. Born in Nice, France, Clémence has met women from all over. From London to Dubai, she now lives in New York, where she runs Passerbuys full-time.

Inspired by those she’s met, when visiting Passerbuys you’ll find women from the New York arts scene, to London fashion houses, to running their own coffee shops in Belgium. But while each woman featured is unlike the other, the one thing they do share is their will to break the mold.

To get to know the creative woman raising the voices of others, we asked Clémence what inspires her from A-Z.

Abbas Kiarostami

Taste of Cherry

Barbican

where I lived for 5 years

Cahiers Du Cinema

No 680 - L'érotisme

Daniel

Husband

Estela

The mussels

Funny Games

Opening Sequence

Gregory Crewdson

The lighting

Human

International Accents

Jason Segel

King’s College

Masters

Lemaire

The Cuts

Mackerel

raw

Nice, France

Used to be home

Oneohtrix Point Never

Passerbuys

“I’m big on people watching, and am always so curious about the women that pass me by, I watch them with so much admiration, and so I wanted to take that to another level - giving a glimpse into their everyday lives. Rather than instruct on how to be, I wanted these features to inspire... I feel like we focus too much on what we don’t have or don’t know. Passerbuys aims to focus on what we do have and do know.”

Quantum Theory