COURREGES

André Courrèges founded his fashion house in 1961, after working for Balenciaga. By 1964, his architectural, futuristic fashion, highly symbolic of the era with its mini skirts and mini dresses, had achieved international success. He used new technologies to eliminate hand-sewing as much as possible, synthetics for easy care, no pleats or darts… His little white dress would become iconic, like vinyl, his favorite material. Always faithful to his style, impervious to all new trends, he would let his house fall asleep a little before it was bought several times and the Kering group really relaunched it in 2017. Nicolas Di Felice, its current artistic director, says he is extremely respectful of the Courrèges style, its materials and its play on geometry; with each new piece he creates, he wonders if it would be approved by André Courrèges.