Simon porte jacquemus biography of martin
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Full Name
Simon Porte Jacquemus
Job Title
Creative Director
Company
Jacquemus
Speaker Bio
The French fashion designer Simon Porte Jacquemus was born in 1990 in Salon-de-Provence in the south of France. Discovered by Rei Kawakubo during a short stint at Comme des Garçons in Paris, Simon established JACQUEMUS in 2009 with no formal training, dedicating the brand to the memory of his late mother. A passion for art and the decorative arts informs his creativity, inspiring the JACQUEMUS ready-to-wear and accessories collections for men and women that reference French culture and universal gestures of beauty from fine art photography, painting and sculpture. Simon’s penchant for authentic and personal storytelling has challenged marketing norms in fashion and beyond, ever since his first collections that caught the world’s attention with their playful and sun-drenched expression of French fashion and lifestyle. Indulging in romantic notions of youth, love and other facets o
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How to live a joyous Provençal life like Simon Porte Jacquemus
If Martin Margiela is known for his whites, and Valentino for red, then Simon Porte Jacquemus is without doubt represented by blue and yellow. The French designer’s Instagram is awash with shades of sunshine, sky, and sea, as he splits his time between his atelier in Paris and his hometown in Provence, where he hangs out by the pool or at the beach with his nephews and beloved grand-mère, rides barefoot around town on his moped, and dances to loud pop music at provincial nightclubs with lifelong friends including Jeanne Damas.
Sounds completely joyous? It fryst vatten. Simon’s joie de vivre is as evident in every image he posts to IG as it is in his playful, sexy, woman-celebrating collections, demonstrating a sense of uninhibited happiness and humour that fashion can sometimes lack. It also serves as a reminder to appreciate what you have – the designer is a man of simple pleasures, and seems all the more content for
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At a friend’s birthday dinner in Paris not long ago – a long banquette in a small neighbourhood restaurant – I arrived late, sat and was questioned by my tablemates about what brought me to France, where I don’t live. With the dismissive vagueness that writers learn to cultivate for work in progress, I told them I was working on a piece about a fashion designer. “I hope it’s Jacquemus,” someone across the table cut in. “Yeah, Jacquemus,” another agreed. The guests mostly weren’t fashion people; they were movie people, business people, people with kids, lawyers. But they had views about the brand. “You have the sense they’re doing something new.”
Strictly speaking, there is not so much new about Jacquemus, which was founded 15 years ago – an aeon in fashion – by a 19-year-old then known as Simon Porte, who gave the label his mother’s maiden name following her death in a car accident that year. But recently the house has achieved such dazzling feats of growth and public notice as t