PARIS (AP) — France’s Nobel Prize winner in economics Philip Aghion Monday reflected on the creative roots that shaped his award-winning ideas about innovation and growth.
Aghion paid tribute to his family lineage, especially his mother. Gabby Aghionwas founded by fashion house chloeAfter winning the Nobel Prize in Economics on monday. Her mother, a 69-year-old economics professor, is known as a pioneer of Parisian ready-to-wear, a freer, more feminine alternative to haute couture.
“I grew up with innovators: she[my mother]invented luxury ready-to-wear,” Aghion told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview from her apartment in Paris’ Latin Quarter. He shared this year’s award with Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University and Peter Howitt of Brown University for research that redefined how technological change drives prosperity.
Nearby, a table stacked with books on art and freedom reflected a world that continues to inspire the pursuit of economic freedom.
“Before, it was all about haute couture, but there was no luxury ready-to-wear,” Aghion says. “In fact, in Chloe’s case, she invented it. She had a vision of how women should be free, how they shouldn’t change their clothes four times a day. She had a vision of freedom, of a liberated woman.”
Aghion recalled his childhood surrounded by artists, including designers Karl Lagerfeld, He said, “I was doing my homework in German.”
