Trained at the Académie Julian as Jean-Emile Laboureur, Etienne Drian working with him in the Gazette du Bon tone, but also to the Journal ladies and fashions. After the war, he published his fashion designs in Illustration and the United States in Harper's Bazaar. Subsequently, he worked with top designers such as participating in the decoration of Molyneux's office in the 1930s or by making murals for Elsie de Wolfe.