Jean
Charles de Castelbajac
Jean Charles de Castelbajac
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Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is a visionary fashion designer who, through his conceptual creations, anticipated today’s break down of the barriers between art and fashion.
Whether it’s Beyoncé’s wild blue jacket, Rihanna in a Donald Duck dress, or the queen Lady Gaga in a jacket with sewn-on Kermit the Frog puppets, they have all worn his creations and made them famous. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is a designer who knows how to dress women with courage and creativity. And for his somewhat unorthodox tastes, he has been nicknamed “Kingof the Unconventional.”
After developing a collection for his mother’s fashion house in 1968, he started his own label in 1978. Since then, he has launched countless successful collections and struck up partnerships with the most unlikely people. Whether it’s robes for the Pope, costumesfor the Woody Allen lm Annie Hall, or clothes for TV series such as Charlie’s Angels and Sex and the City—for decades, de Castelbajac has been a style and fashion pioneer.
Even better, he has always managed to fuse fashion with art, as evidenced by his partnerships with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Take a look behind the scenes at this fashion legend and learn about how this artist got his start and his ongoing history of success.
His multiple collaborations with other artists, among which Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring, Ben and, more recently, Lek & Sowat have crystallised his will to build bridges between these two disciplines.
In 1997, he designed chasubles for 5,000 priests, 500 bishops and the Pope Jean Paul II during World Youth Day in Paris.
Since 2016 he is the Fashion and Art director at Le Coq Sportif. He also pursues his position of fashion designer at Rossignol Skiwear since 2002.
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