Simon Porte Jacquemus and Bertrand le Pluard playfully lampoon fashion films
- Date
- 12 January 2015
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- Billie Muraben
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Simon Porte Jacquemus is a Paris-based, self-taught designer who started his label at 19. He cites “off” taste and juvenile humour as inspiration for his clothes, and each collection has a narrative through not only the fabrics and colour-ways but a sense of identity, place and character. Simon works with filmmaker and photographer Bertrand le Pluard on the films and lookbooks.
The clothes are not the single focus of Simon’s collections, he builds a story and sense of character through the collection film, lookbooks and other forms of publishing, as well as designing the collection pieces. He has described the Jacquemus ethos as being “a playful spirit, clean, fresh and raw,” and in this collection video for La Femme Enfant I’d say that comes across pretty clearly. The clothes are great, as is the lampooning of the precious sobriety of fashion films and the industry itself.
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Billie studied illustration at Camberwell College of Art before completing an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. She joined It’s Nice That as a Freelance Editorial Assistant back in January 2015 and continues to work with us on a freelance basis.