Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

Jean-Charles, marquis de Castelbajac, also known as JC/DC, is a Moroccan/French fashion designer. He has enjoyed international success with some of his creations, including a coat of teddy bears worn by pop star Madonna and by supermodel Helena Christensen in the film Prêt-à-Porter and a sequin jacket for Beyonce, and a Donald Duck costume for Rihanna. During his career he has befriended and worked with artists such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat, Malcolm McLaren, Robert Mapplethorpe, M.I.A, Cassette Playa, Curry & Coco, The Coconut Twins and Lady Gaga.

The underground and the alternative is going to be substituted with being a virus.
When you want to be a designer today, you are in a subversion.
To project your idea, you have to use new technology. It's not like the '70s or the '80s; you have an image that you project globally. — © Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
To project your idea, you have to use new technology. It's not like the '70s or the '80s; you have an image that you project globally.
Sometimes you lose some friends and you get new ones.
In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all the thinking men were.
What is important is the future. After 40 years of creation, I continue. This is what I love.
I love creativity, with no fear of what people think.
I can become a positive virus, a hope virus.
Chaos is favorable to creativity.
When I see that the clothes are sold the day they debut in some cases, I fear we are going to kill the invisible side of fashion, the mystery. Now with the industry, it's getting a bit difficult to create any mystery. But it's quite an interesting period. It's a bit chaotic.
What is the most challenging is the industry of fashion is pushing for speedy consumption.
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