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Isabel Marant
Born 12 April 1967 Boulogne-Billancourt
About
Isabel Marant is a French designer and founder of the fashion label of the same name.
Marant was born in 1967.
Her mother is the director of Elite Agency.
While Marant describes her style as a child as tomboyish, she began reworking her clothes when she was 15 years old.
In 1994 she first launched a full ready-to-wear collection.
Her work is rewarded with the Award de la Mode in 1997.
In 1999 she added the lower-priced line Etoile Isabel Marant to her offer.
Isabel Marant currently has 3 boutiques in Paris, 9 in Asia, 1 in New York and is available at wholesale throughout Europe and the US.
Private
Marant is married to handbag designer Jerome Dreyfuss.
They have a son.
history
1967: Isabel Marant born in Paris to a German mother (a model and a director of the Elite agency) and French father.
After her parents’ divorce, Isabel will split her time between households.
Growing up, she later tells L’Express,
“I wanted to be a vet, like everyone else. I was a tomboy . . . I hated wearing a skirt or dress. How horrible!"
Childhood trips to Africa, Asia, India, and the Caribbean will later influence her work.
1982:Rejecting the girlish style popular in her suburban Paris neighborhood of Neuilly-sur-Seine, asks her father for a sewing machine and begins reworking old army jackets and remnants into a more bohemian wardrobe.
Changes into these original creations before class.
“I wanted to wear things that I liked. Fashion, I did not even know what it was!"
she later recalls, noting her proclivity for wearing ballet flats, sans socks, even in cold weather.
1985:Has modest success selling pieces created with friend Christophe Lemaire to a shop in Les Halles.
Abandons plans to study economics to take up design at Studio Berçot fashion school.
A crush on Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren inspires her to make clothes from dishcloths.
“But dishcloths are really nice in France,” she later says.
1987:Following her studies, apprentices with Parisian designer Michel Klein.
In the next year or two will also collaborate with Bridget Yorke on two collections for Yorke & Cole, and assist art director Marc Ascoli on projects for Yohji Yamamoto, Martine Sitbon, and Chloé.
1989:Launches a small collection of outsize jewelry.
“I started in fashion in jewelry, putting myself behind torches and soldering irons!”she later says.
(Will go on to design accessories and jewelry for Claude Montana, Michel Perry, and Yorke & Cole.)
1990:Launches knitwear label Twen with her mother, with whom she works “until I felt strong enough to stand on my own," she later recalls.
1994:Establishes her own label, setting up a studio on the Passage Saint-Sébastien in the Marais.
Her logo, a hand-drawn star, is taken from her school days, when she replaced the dot over the I in her name with such a star in order to stand out.
“When I made my mark at 26 years old,” she later tells L’Express, “I had set myself a simple goal: I wanted to create clothes that I myself wished to buy, clothes for girls, working women, who have taste and are willing to spend a little money on their looks without breaking the bank.”
The first show is held in the debris-strewn courtyard of a squat, with Marant’s friends modeling.
1997:Wins the year’s Award de la Mode.
1998:January: Launches I*M line in Japan.
Guest-designs the first of several collections for French clothing catalog La Redoute.
February: Opens her first store, in a former artist’s studio in the Bastille district.
Designs a collection of patchwork rabbit-fur coats and fur-lined rainwear for Parisian furrier Yves Salomon.
March: The New York Times reports on her fusion of “a layered, often floor-length silhouette with Asian and African influences”; the overall look “says trekking in Tibet via the Bastille."
1999:Lower-priced Étoile line debuts at Pret-a-Porter Paris, with a focus on jeans and T-shirts.
2000:February: She opens a second Paris shop at 1 rue Jacob on the Left Bank.
“To me, this is the authentic Paris,” she tells WWD.
(She will add a third store, on the rue de Saintonge, in 2007) First full Étoile collection, including lingerie, is introduced.
2002:Marant designs a line of lingerie with Beautiful People by DIM.
2003:Gives birth to a son, Tal, with husband Jerome Dreyfuss, a handbag designer.
2004:February: Isabel Marant pop-up boutique opens at Paris’s new Printemps de la Mode department store.
September: Childrenswear line is launched.
2006:Marant collaborates with Anthropologie on a collection.
2008:French fashion chain Naf Naf is ordered to pay damages of $120,000 to Marant for copying a dress from her fall 2006 collection.
2009:July: Brit actress Rachel Weisz wears Marant’s leopard minidress while promoting A Streetcar Named Desire in London.
(French siren Marion Cotillard wears a similar look when she appears on Oprah in December).
August: Action villain Sienna Miller wears Marant’s ruched printed cocktail dress and Otway booties to the London premiere of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
2010:January: The Wall Street Journal reports on the buying frenzy sparked by Marant’s Otway studded biker bootie with isosceles-triangle heel.
“The heels came from the little cowboy cartoon from Bugs Bunny,” she will tell Vogue in the March issue.
“If you exaggerate the shape all the way, it becomes a triangle.”
April: First Stateside boutique opens in SoHo in New York, with Dreyfuss’s handbags in the adjoining space. “I’ve always had a very secure way of development, because I created my brand in ’94 with my own money and really increased, increased, increased step by step,”she tells WWD.
May: Actress Jennifer Connelly wears Marant’s jewel-neck LBD, black stockings, and black Balenciaga heels at the Tribeca Ball.
June: Marant is crowned Fashion Designer of the Year at British Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards.
July: Model Kate Moss is the face of Marant’s fall campaign. August: “My ideal woman is Serge Gainsbourg,” the designer tells Love magazine.
“Not that he was a woman.” August: MTV It girl Alexa Chung tells Vogue, “I buy everything Isabel Marant ever looked at.”
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