He was born in 1949 in Casablanca. Lives and Works in Paris. In 1968, when he was 21 years old, he appeared in Paris fashion as a sea star, breaking the formula “High-End Fashion is Luxury Material,” creating a sensation in Paris fashion and becoming a star designer. He is the godfather of avant-garde fashion, who had already introduced avant-garde fashion. Since then, collaboration with best actress models and film directors of the time, including Grace Jones, Lind Blade, Isabel Azani, Para Fossett, Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, etc. Key members of the pop art and punk generation who shared close friendship and artistic communion are Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Basquiat, Malcolm MacLaren (Sexpistols), Vivian Westwood. He is a fashion designer who designed the papal and cardinal’s special Mass for the first time in human history. State Fashion Institute of Technology, New York initiates research on Jean-Charles de Castelbajac.

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