Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
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1949: Born on November 28th in Casablanca, son of Louis and Jeanne-Blanche de Castelbajac
1968: First collection for Ko and Co, company created at Limoges by his mother Jeanne-Blanche de Castelbajac
1969: First show. Use of indirect fabrics: floor cloths, sponges, oilskin cloths, camouflage cloths
Hire Kenzo and Chantal Thomass for Ko and Co
Concert of Led Zeppelin at the Olympia / Jimmy Page, double Gibson and Archet
1973: Join the group « Créateurs et Industriels » created by Andrée Putman and Didier Grumbach.
Show futurism and protection manifesto: bandages, protection nylons and micka visors.
First Page of the Women Wear Daily : « The Courrèges of the 70’s »
Show at Galliera Palace
1974: Show at Bourse du Commerce: first teddybear coat, and poncho for two. Skiwear designed with Robert Malaval
First concept store 31, place du Marché Saint-Honoré in Paris
Encounter Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood in London
Concert of New York Dolls at Paris for his birthday
Contemporary Art collection debut
1976 Iceberg creation in Italia, destructured and pop knitwear
Start of advertising campaign “the contemporaries” with Oliviero Toscani
Design the Sportmax line for MaxMara
Concert of the Sex Pistols at the “Chalet du Lac”
1982 First painted dresses by Jean-Charles Blais, Robert Combas, Loulou Picasso, Ben, Annette Messager, Gérard Garouste, Hervé Di Rosa and Miquel Barcelo
1983: “Tribute”dresses from Mickey Mouse to Louis XVI
Pictures by Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Peter Hujar
Encounter Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat
1984: Graffiti Dresses
Painted Object-Dresses, Tribute to Andy Warhol
First oversized clothing, “Gulliver” Coat
1986 Collaboration with K-Way
Exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
1988: Exhibition Anti Körper at the MAK in Vienna: The Teddy Bear Coat
1993 Design with four hands two collections with André Courrèges
1997 Design liturgical clothes for the pope Jean-Paul II and 5500 clergymen for the XIIth Worldwide Youth Days in Paris
1999 Opening of a concept store dedicated to young designers: rue Madame in Paris
2000 First and unique Haute Couture collection « Bellintelligentzia »
Back to menswear “Presumed innocent”
Show ‘First Care’
2001 Launch of his « Doudou » Perfume, laureate of the Design price
Beginning of the co-branding with Rossignol and Le Coq Sportif
Show “Emergency State” at the metro station François Mitterrand
Men show “Frankenstein the dandy”
2002 Collection « Physical Graffiti », tribute to Guy Peellaert
2003 Dress up Sarah Jessica Parker in “Sex and the city”
2004 Install his studio and new concept store in collaboration with Christian Ghion: 10 rue Vauvilliers in Paris
Film his first short-movie “Hôtel Kittyfornia” with Maréva Galanter
Settlement with the group Marchpole
2006 Exhibition Popaganda, The fashion style of JC de Castelbajac at Victoria & Albert Museum in London
Write Eneco, a fantastic novel edited by Scali
2007 Exhibition “Gallierock” at the Fashion museum of Paris Galliera
2008 Open his concept store in London at Seville raw
October 2009 : Fashion show Pirates !Parrots !and Paradise ! with a live of Ebony Bones
November 2009 : Artistic director of BHV and Drugstore for a pop christmas .
Preparing his first exhibition in Paris. September 2010 La Bank Gallery
March 2010 : Fashion Show Go!Go!Go! Diva with a live of French Horn Rebellion
Avril 2010 : Artistic director of Selfridges windows in London. « An encounter of the fifth kind »
September 2010 : “Tyranny of beauty”, first art exhibition in Paris at La B.A.N.K. gallery
Launch of the JCDC online store
October 2010: Fashion show “Uber Tropikal Airlines” with The shoes live
1968: First collection for Ko and Co, company created at Limoges by his mother Jeanne-Blanche de Castelbajac
1969: First show. Use of indirect fabrics: floor cloths, sponges, oilskin cloths, camouflage cloths
Hire Kenzo and Chantal Thomass for Ko and Co
Concert of Led Zeppelin at the Olympia / Jimmy Page, double Gibson and Archet
1973: Join the group « Créateurs et Industriels » created by Andrée Putman and Didier Grumbach.
Show futurism and protection manifesto: bandages, protection nylons and micka visors.
First Page of the Women Wear Daily : « The Courrèges of the 70’s »
Show at Galliera Palace
1974: Show at Bourse du Commerce: first teddybear coat, and poncho for two. Skiwear designed with Robert Malaval
First concept store 31, place du Marché Saint-Honoré in Paris
Encounter Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood in London
Concert of New York Dolls at Paris for his birthday
Contemporary Art collection debut
1976 Iceberg creation in Italia, destructured and pop knitwear
Start of advertising campaign “the contemporaries” with Oliviero Toscani
Design the Sportmax line for MaxMara
Concert of the Sex Pistols at the “Chalet du Lac”
1982 First painted dresses by Jean-Charles Blais, Robert Combas, Loulou Picasso, Ben, Annette Messager, Gérard Garouste, Hervé Di Rosa and Miquel Barcelo
1983: “Tribute”dresses from Mickey Mouse to Louis XVI
Pictures by Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Peter Hujar
Encounter Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat
1984: Graffiti Dresses
Painted Object-Dresses, Tribute to Andy Warhol
First oversized clothing, “Gulliver” Coat
1986 Collaboration with K-Way
Exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
1988: Exhibition Anti Körper at the MAK in Vienna: The Teddy Bear Coat
1993 Design with four hands two collections with André Courrèges
1997 Design liturgical clothes for the pope Jean-Paul II and 5500 clergymen for the XIIth Worldwide Youth Days in Paris
1999 Opening of a concept store dedicated to young designers: rue Madame in Paris
2000 First and unique Haute Couture collection « Bellintelligentzia »
Back to menswear “Presumed innocent”
Show ‘First Care’
2001 Launch of his « Doudou » Perfume, laureate of the Design price
Beginning of the co-branding with Rossignol and Le Coq Sportif
Show “Emergency State” at the metro station François Mitterrand
Men show “Frankenstein the dandy”
2002 Collection « Physical Graffiti », tribute to Guy Peellaert
2003 Dress up Sarah Jessica Parker in “Sex and the city”
2004 Install his studio and new concept store in collaboration with Christian Ghion: 10 rue Vauvilliers in Paris
Film his first short-movie “Hôtel Kittyfornia” with Maréva Galanter
Settlement with the group Marchpole
2006 Exhibition Popaganda, The fashion style of JC de Castelbajac at Victoria & Albert Museum in London
Write Eneco, a fantastic novel edited by Scali
2007 Exhibition “Gallierock” at the Fashion museum of Paris Galliera
2008 Open his concept store in London at Seville raw
October 2009 : Fashion show Pirates !Parrots !and Paradise ! with a live of Ebony Bones
November 2009 : Artistic director of BHV and Drugstore for a pop christmas .
Preparing his first exhibition in Paris. September 2010 La Bank Gallery
March 2010 : Fashion Show Go!Go!Go! Diva with a live of French Horn Rebellion
Avril 2010 : Artistic director of Selfridges windows in London. « An encounter of the fifth kind »
September 2010 : “Tyranny of beauty”, first art exhibition in Paris at La B.A.N.K. gallery
Launch of the JCDC online store
October 2010: Fashion show “Uber Tropikal Airlines” with The shoes live