Jazzy colours, funky prints and swinging embroidery. Benoît Missolin composes a
Pop fashion. Benoît Missolin has fun with clichés, his naïve and sparkling creations are an invitation to “go party” !
Born in Avignon in 1973, Benoît Missolin spent his childhood in Provence.
The bambino creates outfits for his Snoopy, scribbles dresses in the margins of his school books.
Adolescent, he sends his sketches to the main fashion houses. Christian Lacroix replies, thus begins
a correspondance; the couturier acts as mentor and guide. School diploma in pocket,
Benoît Missolin makes off for Paris.
He takes courses at the school of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture, before heading off to the
Studio Berçot. Then a series of apprenticeships, at Christian Lacroix — bien sur — but also at Jean
Colonna, Thierry Mugler, and Fred Sathal where he is appointed assistant.
He designs his first collection in 1997, but things really start to take shape in 2001 when he presents his first mixed catwalk show under a Tyrolese-Disco inspiration.
The following collections go from “Croisière à Hawaï” to “Piste aux Etoiles”.
In November 2002, winner at the “Gwand Festival”, he comes away with the Swiss Textile Award;
a financial aid that will consequently accompany his developpement.
Moscou, Osaka, Shangaî, Toronto, Amsterdam….invite the designers to show his collections during differents events and fashion weeks .
As a supplement to his own collections, he multiplies the new experiences which urge him little by little to choose new supports of creations.
A first grant of the City hall of Paris and the AFAA sends him to work in embroiderers cooperative for 2 months in a favela of Rio de Janeiro.
Few years later he obtains a second grant of THE AFAA which allows him to leave to Mexico to work on the theme of « Dia de los muertos » together with the photographer Vincent Gapaillard.
Manon Savary confides him the realization of the costumes of " L’illusion comique " and Absolut Vodka chooses him to represent France during their annual "fashion" operation.
In 2005 he accessorizes his last collection on the theme of the gypsies with hats embroidered with patchworks. A success!
The idea " scored ", he decides to concentrate definitively on head accessories.
Every season, he presents playful and inspired headpieces.
His " Bunnyears " (wink to Playboy magasine) are photographed in the most famous international fashion magazines.
Today Chapurin, Diesel Gold Label, Bernhard Whilelm, MAC or Jean Paul Goude appeals to him to accessorize fashion shows or advertisements.
Anna Sui asked him to realize a short collection, sold in his shop of New York and at Isetan in Japan.
In May, 2010, the French Spring of Jakarta organized its first retrospective in Indonesia.
His collection is distribute to shops such as Le Bon Marché in Paris, Liberty in London, Via Bus Stop, Opening Creremony and Beams in Tokyo orTsum in Moscow....
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