After 38 years of career, the 66-year-old Antwerp designer said goodbye to the world of fashion. Its 150e and final parade took place this Saturday in Paris.
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Deputy Head of the Culture Department
By Julie HuonPublished on 06/23/2024 at 5:01 p.m.
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On rarely retires in fashion. Generally, we die before, “on stage”, like Karl Lagerfeld, Gianni Versace or Vivienne Westwood. We exhaust ourselves, we give everything, like Giorgio Armani who was still showing in Milan last week, at the age of 89. At best, we take our foot off the gas, like Jean Paul Gaultier who, at 68, announced that he was taking a little distance from the catwalks from 2020 and would henceforth invite a designer to take advantage of his workshops each season. The Belgian Glenn Martens, the French Olivier Rousteing, the Irish Simone Rocha, among others, have already benefited from it.
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