Tuesday, 10 January 2012

7:Jean charles de castelbajac


Born in 1950 in casablanca,morocco.He moved to france in the mid 50s .
He was one of France's new ages of ready-to-wear designers and worked with Pop Art themes such as Andy Warhol's Soup can painting, which he printed onto a cylindrical dress in 1984. 
He was also inspired by the work of designers Paco Rabanne and Pierre Cardin, on the theme of Futurism and has designed Space Age collections. Also in 1984, he designed a dress made of heavy denim material with the front shaped and painted like the crotch opening of a pair of blue jeans.
While continuing to design under his own name, he simultaneously created Sportmax for the Italian house of Max Mara. 
He mixed his personal life and his interest in movies, music, art and the environment with his clothing design. Castelbajac, has created many clothes featuring printed logos, messages or images. He is famous for his chic yet rugged daywear and also for his hand-painted fabrics which did much to influence the "wearable art" garments popular during the 80's. 
While continuing his own label, he also started designing for the Paris house of Andres Courreges in the mid-90's. 
In 1997, Castelbajac designed garments for the Pope and senior ecclesiastical members of the Vatican.
 

I have been interested in  Jcdc for years his fun more relatable fashion designs have interested and amused me countless time, while some of his critics say there is no place for his brash childlike designs i say its about time someone put  the word fun into fashion . Not many people can be playful with fashion and still create stunning symmetrical clothing that manages to flatter and shock at the same time.
I have chosen his kermit full frontal jacket as my favorite piece currently of his its shocking to some and critics have said its appalling to wear such a childhood icon as a carcass on a modals shoulders , I would like to say ok, but i think what he is trying to do here is ask the question how can it be wrong to wear a well know puppet animal as a jacket but to wear the skin of a real life animal is considered ok and still parades the catwalkes today. It proves how confused the fashion industry is about what it shuns and accepts and how we and them should maybe take a step back and think about what we believe and why we think that why.What he has done is shock and humour so well done jean.                                

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