NDRE Courreges came in the early Space sixty to liberate women from corsets, popularize the miniskirt or shorts, and entered into the world of fashion its peculiar futuristic vision full of geometry and architecture steeped in.
Raised under the wing of the great Cristobal Balenciaga , Courrèges, who died Thursday at age 92, rose span skirts and dresses: the human being was still capable of anything then, and after conquering space, could dare to show legs women.
The skirt trapeze, the “pantacourt” (capris) or mini-dresses characteristic form part of the legacy of a man who, somehow, was like a fish out of water in the world fashion.
Theirs were the forms and charm by geometry, he nurtured passions in his engineering studies of bridges and roads, where he became familiar with the basics of architecture.
And then light. The gleaming white, pink … the color palette was always influenced by the light. Profile than his own firm has on its website qualifying him before all as “sporty and love of light”.
That white with which Courreges shocked in 1964 in one of his most memorable collections, “The Moon Girl”, the girl of the moon.
In front of the “little black dress” Coco Chanel, the designer popularized his “white dress”, a true emblem of the brand.
Born in Pau, near the French Pyrenees, in 1923, at age 22 landed in Paris after his engineering studies and soon after, in 1950, he entered in the house of Balenciaga, where for a decade he learned the basics of the trade.
In 1961, motivated by his desire to better connect with the younger generation and bring fashion to the youth, he left the teacher’s signature Spanish with his inseparable assistant Coqueline (who eventually married) to found his own company.
Without breaking entirely with Balenciaga, Courrèges revolutionized the world of fashion with proposals that disrupted the conservative principles of society .
But its impact is felt not only from the aesthetic point of view: he wanted to democratize fashion, which promoted the “ready-to-wear” and the use of less expensive materials acercasen designs women.
The actresses Catherine Deneuve and Jane Birkin , the model Twiggy and singer Françoise Hardy were some of his most famous clients. Courreges was one of the quintessential pop designers.
At the time, the factory had built in Pau employed about 800 people, until the fierce competition from Asian manufacturing rocked the business.
Courrèges in 1984 sold the company to a group of Japanese investors, although in the middle of the next decade his wife Coqueline and repurchased amended the decision to relaunch the brand.
After a brief round five years of haute couture, the house disappears in 2002.
However, in 2011, Jacques Bungert and Frédéric Torloting , two ambitious French advertisers , bought the brand determined to regain the firm where they work since campaigns collaboration with various brands of beauty or even water bottles.
In the last Fashion Week in Paris last September The very young designers Sebastian Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant , which became known for his work Coperni, returned to Corréges to Haute Couture.
In his show, they transmitted the DNA of the brand to add a touch of modernity, with easy to wear and combinable garments together to allow simple costumes you can create a wide range of possibilities.
Courrèges, suffering from Parkinson’s disease for three decades, he could still see in life the revival of a name that will go down in posterity.
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