Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is a French fashion designer who is best known for his eclectic and colorful fashion designs. His simple enveloping clothes remain true to the uncut cloth. Thick, felt-like fabrics have preoccupied him since him as at boarding school, when he cut his first garment out of a blanket. He was one of France’s new ages of ready-to-wear designers and worked with Pop Art themes such as Andy Warhol’s Soup can painting, which he printed onto a cylindrical dress in 1984. He mixed his personal life and his interest in movies, music, art and the environment with his clothing design. His designs are functional, modernist, high-tech clothing. As a foil to the clearly defined structure of his designs, he uses natural fabrics and fibres. He lengthened the ski jacket to make a quilted coat which became widely copied.
