- Courrèges was a adherent of acclaimed clothier (and adolescent Basque) Cristóbal Balenciaga, with whom he formed from 1950-1961. Afterwards which time, he opened up his own couture house.
- While able-bodied admired aural the industry, it was his 1964 “Space Age” accumulating that absolutely skyrocketed him to fame. It featured suntanned models cutting all white clothes and alien the miniskirt in the bosom of the Swinging Sixties. The minis hit three inches aloft the knee. Scandal!
The accumulating aggressive added designers such as Pierre Cardin and Paco Rabanne to aswell actualize affected appearance collections and acquired Vogue to proclaim, “To abrasion Courrèges you accept to accord yourself to him completely. Surrender.” Jacqueline Kennedy, the Duchess of Windsor, and Françoise Hardy bound became fans.
- His accouterment was aswell admired by Andy Warhol and his accompany at the Factory. “Courrèges clothes are so beautiful, anybody should attending the same, dressed in silver,” said the artisan at the time. “Silver merges into everything, apparel should be beat during the day with lots of make-up.”
- In 1967, he alien a circulation band alleged Couture Future, which offered the aforementioned designs at a lower amount point.
- By the aboriginal 1970s, he confused abroad from the “Space Age” look, cautiously accepting that added bohemian styles had appear into play. He didn’t break focused on appearance for long, instead utilizing his architectonics amount to architecture buildings.
In 1972, he advised the apparel for the 15,000 advisers of the Munich Olympic Games.
- According to WWD, his wife and muse, Coqueline Courrèges, connected to run the characterization until 2011, if she awash it to Jacques Bungert and Frédéric Torloting, two above commercial admiral who accept set about abating the abode to its above glory.
- In May of this accomplished year, the aggregation broke Coperni Femme designers to be the artistic admiral of the label. Their aboriginal collection, apparent during the Spring-Summer 2016 collections to abundant fanfare, focused on the simple apparel and geometric shapes that were emblematic of the line’s founder.
