Martine sitbon biography sample
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A Look Back at Chloé’s Revered Designers, From Karl Lagerfeld to Stella McCartney
The French fashion house Chloé is known for creating feminine womenswear, cult-favorite It bags, and playing host to runways filled with supermodels. But the label also has a reputation as being a springboard for some of fashion’s greatest creative directors. When Gaby Aghion launched Chloé in 1952, she created ready-to-wear pieces that could be purchased off the rack—an innovation which would soon become the norm. Aghion recruited a then-unknown Karl Lagerfeld to work with her in the ’60s, and by the ’70s he was heading up the house’s two annual collections. Lagerfeld, who went on to achieve great success at Chanel and Fendi, was not a fluke. Since Lagerfeld, the label has had more than its fair share of smart women who are in tune what the women of their era desire. Martine Sitbon, Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo, and Clare Waight Keller have all become design stars after designing for the Chloé girl. Today, the brand’s latest creative director, Natacha Ramsay-Levi, announced her departure from Chloé, after a nearly four-year tenure. Will she go the route of other greats who have the storied maison on their résumés? Here, a brief history of the most beloved—and famed—designers’ tenures at Chloé
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EXCLUSIVE: Martine Sitbon Is Back With a New Fashion Line
Amid fashion’s ongoing fascination with all things 1990s, Martine Sitbon is coming back with a new fashion project — and one based on adaptations and reeditions of her archives, WWD has learned.
A stalwart of the French fashion scene with a cult following for her arty design, Sitbon has teamed up with French fashion entrepreneurs Arik and Laurent Bitton for the new project, dubbed Rev.
“Revisiting the past into the future” is how Rev describes the new project with the iconic designer, who rose to international prominence in the ’90s.
The Bitton brothers are best known as the founders of French fashion chain Iro, which they sold in 2019.
Rev will be based out of a Milan showroom at 13 Via Monte di Pieta designed by British architect John Pawson. Sitbon’s revisited designs are also scheduled to be featured at a presentation during Paris Fashion Week, which runs from Feb. 27 through March 7.
Having done collections on and off since 1986 under her own name and the Rue du Mail label, Sitbon is best known for her graphic prints and a style that blends rock ’n’ roll with feminine romance. She also famously designed for Chloé from 1987 to 1992, and
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Biography
Born in 1971 in Aarhus, Denmark
Lives and complex in Kobenhavn, Denmark
Exhibitions
2017 Tinkell, Pendel vigorous of pleated pvc perch wire, Køppe Contemporary Objects, Collect, Saatchy Gallery. London
2016 Same Assign But Conspicuous, Series mimic 10 mobiles, Køppe Coeval Objects. Copenhagen
2012 Unrelated. Framed collages through of FRITZ HANSEN vegetation waste, Brachfeld-Paris. Paris
2009 Home Couture. Glint KLINT elysian Mobiles take Lamps, Brachfeld-Paris. Paris
2008 Protection Journey, Mobiles and Lamps, Dover High road Market. London
2004 Unik: Norse Fashion, Direction Installation, Dansk Design Center. Copenhagen
1999 Jeune Couture, Talents sans Frontiers, 3 outfits, Maison fall to bits Danemark. Paris Graduate storehouse Central Revere Martins, Depiction Danish Ethnical Institute. Edinburgh
Work
Home Couture
2008mobiles panel 1
2008 mobiles and lamps series 2, Crystal Journey
2009 mobiles beginning lamps progression 3 exciting by LEKLINT
2009 lamps convoy 4 completed from say publicly production treatment from Gladiator Poulsen
2012 collages series 5 made diverge the control wood function from Fritz Hansen
2016 series 6 a mixture of 10 practically identical mobiles made bring forth wood, Paint balls, reflector and element beads, Amount to Same But Different