DAVID BELLION has always loved art.

Not art in the sense of painting, drawing, galleries and museums, but in terms of creativity and design.

When SunSport travelled to Paris in October to meet with the former Sunderland, Manchester United, West Ham and Bordeaux striker, the 35-year-old touched on his new career in the arts.

We returned to France to delve further into his life post-retirement, where Bellion has found himself working with one of the most in-demand design directors in France.

"I didn't grow up with a lot of art," Bellion tells SunSport from a perfectly crafted settee in Paris, "I am from a modest family.

"But from young I was very, very particular in the things I liked, in everything I wanted to have.

"I think I always had a good eye for something that looked different or 'edgy'. I always wanted the trainers that nobody else had.

"I was always against the flow, in everything I wanted to do. It grew into art."

Knocking on the big black door of YMER&MALTA I thought I was walking into a gallery – but it's not really a gallery, it's much, much more.

It is hard to define Bellion's role with the company and to define the company itself, such is its unique nature.

"One of a kind," the former striker says, "You cannot say it's a gallery or a studio, it has no definition."

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