Karishma is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, illustrator and fashion designer. Having lived amidst different cultures and languages, her constant transformations lead her not to shedding old skins (like the snake), but rather to add on layers of knowledge and experience (like the turtle). Conceptually she works with the essence of the human experience through storytelling, with popular culture, folklore, world mythologies and ecofeminism. She is moved by the idea of “thinking with our hands” and she is convinced that through making, one can access a different kind of intuitive, creative knowledge. For this reason, in parallel to designing clothes, illustrating books and interactive art installations, in 2014 she founded L’École de Papier, a school and laboratory where she researches ways of accompanying artists (both children and adult) to enter the “state of play” which is so easily accessible through artistic practices.