Jean-charles de Castelbajac

Jean-charles de Castelbajac

Jean-Charles is a fashion designer and visionary artist who rewrote the sector’s traditional codes in the 1970’s, when he created a lot of new fashion trends, like the ‘anti-fashion’ movement, based on accumulation, appropriation, and the alternative use of objects, very much like situationism and Dadaism.
His career as a fashion designer started in 1968 alongside his mother, when he created Ko & Co. The first ‘manifesto’ piece of clothing he produced was a coat he made, using the blanket he used when he was at boarding school. He founded maison Jean-Charles de Castelbajac in 1978, which he left in 2016.
Between the 70’s and the 90’s, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac was also the artistic director of prestigious fashion houses like Max Mara and Courrèges and he co-founded Iceberg in 1974. In 1979, in consonance with pop art, he designed cartoon pullovers that have since become iconic.