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Phenomenon, the chocolate will have its first show on Lille from March 4 to 6. Jean-Daniel Vandewalle will attend. He created a dress for the occasion 100% chocolate, for a parade that will include a dozen models. “We are not ephemeral a product that will last half an hour. The dress will take four days, both to be worn every day at 17 am, being exposed. ”
In this adventure starts a young Dunkirk, who presides over the destinies of a house famous. “For Jean Bart Fingers” has become a local institution. It serves the eponymous patisserie, who built his aura, an almond cake with coffee cream coated with chocolate. More than a century, the hotel has seen four generations, not hesitating to innovate.
For the time structure of paper mache covered with chocolate throne in the laboratory of Jean-Daniel Vandewalle. Patiently overlapping layers of white chocolate.
The craftsman said advancing step by step. Two weeks before the event is perceived in him a sense of excitement. “I took some tips on carving from a friend whose father is a painter,” he says. “Otherwise, we know a few techniques, and we advance progressively. We did not ultimately have much time. We can not do tests. I see there now working on our new menu for spring, I try things there either. ”
What will the dress? The artisan chocolate pastry coordinates its work with a stylist Lille, Sarah Lespagnol, brand Ystérique.
The assumption is based on “one side Coco Chanel, a black and white product. Me, I want to bring a side Dunkirk. A pirate’s bandana and other small touches recall Jean Bart, the local hero.
Attention food lovers will not eat the chocolate dress that look, because the chocolate around it is not edible