Jeremy Scott (born August 8, 1975) is an American fashion designer. He is the creative director of t

Jeremy Scott (born August 8, 1975) is an American fashion designer. He is the creative director of the fashion house Moschino and the sole owner of his namesake label. Since launching his brand in Paris in 1997, Scott has built a reputation as “pop culture’s most irreverent designer”, and “fashion’s last rebel”. In 1992, Scott moved to New York to study fashion design at Pratt Institute, one of the city’s traditional colleges, where he wore sci-fi-inspired clothes, “1880s vs 1980s” outfits, and shredded and decaying clothes. After graduating in 1996, Scott moved to Paris. While looking for a job in fashion industry, he was forced to scrounge meals and sleep in the metro. Not having any luck with fashion jobs, he decided to create his own brand. The following season, in 1997, Jeremy Scott, the brand, made its debut in a bar near Bastille. Scraps of fabric from the Porte de Clignancourt flea market resembling garbage bags were used in the follow-up show, all in black, which was described by Scott as “Blade Runner, trash bags and the apocalypse.” The collection was later exhibited in the influential Parisian shop Colette, which has carried Jeremy Scott ever since. His third collection, all in white, was a critical hit. It won awards and attracted Mario Testino, the editors of French Vogue, and the stylist Isabella Blow, who adopted Scott as a protégé. In the same year, Scott made a show about 1980s decadence (sable, shoulder pads, big hair, gold lamé) as maybe the first designer to revive the eighties. The models’ unbalanced heels were designed by Christian Louboutin. Opposing the prevalent minimalism, the show was panned by Vogue and others. Scott himself considers “the gold show” as the hardest moment of his career. In October 2013 Scott became Moschino’s creative director. After turning down several other offers, he chose the Italian label because it had a similarly irreverent approach, its founder Franco Moschino seeing fashion as a form of protest. In his 2015 manifesto in The Guardian, Scott described his approach to American consumer culture: “An image of Mickey Mouse is understood in Mumbai, Timbuktu and Los Angeles in the same way. It’s a clear message even if you subvert it by, say, putting Mickey ears on an army helmet (as I did in 2007)… A lot of my collections are informed by nostalgia.” if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways -- source link

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