Paris, a lively street in the 17and arrondissement. We pass in front of the primeur, the food shops. We stop in front of the very imposing door of an old building. Direction 4and stage. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac receives us at his home, a few days before his carte blanche at the Mobilier national, from March 25 to May 5, and on the occasion of an exhibition-workshop, “The people of tomorrow”, which is held in the Young Public area of the Center Pompidou in Paris, until May 9. A flat “inhabited by light” where follow one another ” memories and contemporary elements that complement each other with things from the day-to-day “.
The 72-year-old stylist evokes his childhood in Morocco and a decisive year spent in Nice with his grandmother, his imagination which developed at a very young age while he was in boarding school in Normandy, his first work in fashion with from her mother who designed dresses, her passion for English rock bands of the 1960s and then for punk, the launch of her own house in 1978, the way in which art and collaborations nourish her creation, her love of colors , the way he designs his clothes, his interest in new abstraction and his current fulfillment: “I have long thought that success could distort the act of creation. Today, I am less in the idea of being out of time, because time has joined what I was doing. »
For three seasons and now every week, producer Géraldine Sarratia has questioned the construction and intricacies of a personality’s taste. Whether they are creators, artists, cooks or intellectuals, they all call upon their childhood memories, all evoke the social and cultural dimension of the construction of a corpus of tastes, of a set of values.
A podcast produced and presented by Géraldine Sarratia (Ideal Genre)
prepared with the help of Diane Lisarelli and Mélissa Phulpin
Directed by: Guillaume Girault
Music: Gotan Project
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