'My job is not just to design clothes but to also give a new vision to fashion.' Happy birthday, ORousteing!
all this makes him something of a rarity: Racial diversity, youth, and flagrant -modernity are not characteristics commonly associated with venerable French fashion houses, much less with the designers at their helm. Yet Rousteing—who after three successful years on the job has made it clear that he is not a fashion footnote—is determined to change that. “My job is not just to design clothes but to also give a new vision to fashion,” he declares.
That was not always his agenda. Rousteing was raised in Bordeaux, France, by adoptive white parents. “My father was a port manager, my mother an optician; but they were very modern,” he says. “They taught me to be open-minded and express myself.” He initially planned on becoming a lawyer, but, bored and restless after only two months studying law, he made his way to Rome to intern for Gianni Serra, a small couture house.
As happy as he was at Cavalli, Rousteing was drawn to Paris—and, in particular, to Balmain, where Christophe Decarnin’s crystal-encrusted designs were causing a worldwide frenzy, aptly referred to as Balmainia. “I loved what he was doing,” Rousteing says. “It was more my taste than Cavalli.” He sent his CV, was hired instantly, and spent more than two and a half years working beside Decarnin, until 2011, when Decarnin exited the house after rumors he’d had a nervous breakdown.
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