For his 25th birthday, a friend bought Fabien, who had started out as a caterer but fallen out of love with the profession, a cosmetics-making kit – leading to an unlikely change of tack. In 2012, he took the plunge and launched men’s beauty brand Le Baigneur. Today the enterprising Frenchman sells his 100% organic soaps, oils and other toiletries, for men and women, from a slick blue-and-white-tiled atelier and boutique in central Paris.
