Martine sitbon biography sample
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A Look Back at Chloé’s Revered Designers, From Karl Lagerfeld to Stella McCartney
The French fashion house Chloé is known for creating feminine womenswear, cult-favorite It bags, and playing host to runways filled with supermodels. But the label also has a reputation as being a springboard for some of fashion’s greatest creative directors. When Gaby Aghion launched Chloé in 1952, she created ready-to-wear pieces that could be purchased off the rack—an innovation which would soon become the norm. Aghion recruited a then-unknown Karl Lagerfeld to work with her in the ’60s, and by the ’70s he was heading up the house’s two annual collections. Lagerfeld, who went on to achieve great success at Chanel and Fendi, was not a fluke. Since Lagerfeld, the label has had more than its fair share of smart women who are in tune what the women of their era desire. Martine Sitbon, Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo, and Clare Waight Keller have all become design stars after designing for the Chloé girl
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EXCLUSIVE: Martine Sitbon Is Back With a New Fashion Line
Amid fashion’s ongoing fascination with all things 1990s, Martine Sitbon is coming back with a new fashion planerat arbete — and one based on adaptations and reeditions of her archives, WWD has learned.
A stalwart of the French mode scene with a cult following for her arty design, Sitbon has teamed up with French mode entrepreneurs Arik and Laurent Bitton for the new project, dubbed Rev.
“Revisiting the past into the future” fryst vatten how Rev describes the new planerat arbete with the iconic designer, who rose to international prominence in the ’90s.
The Bitton brothers are best known as the founders of French mode chain Iro, which they sold in 2019.
Rev will be based out of a Milan showroom at 13 Via Monte di Pieta designed by British architect John Pawson. Sitbon’s revisited designs are also scheduled to be featured at a presentation during Paris mode Week, which runs from Feb.
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Sitbon, Martine
French designer
Born: circa 1952 in Casablanca; raised in Casablanca and Paris. Education: Graduated in fashion design from the Studio Bercot, Paris, 1974. Career: Fashion consultant, then freelance designer, 1974-84; signature ready-to-wear collection debuted in Paris, 1984; also ready-to-wear designer, Chloé in Paris, 1987-91; opened Paris store, 1995; licensing deal with Gibo and launched Martine Sitbon Tricot, 1998; introduced menswear collection, 1999; debuted punk collection, March 2000; named creative director for women, Byblos, 2001. Address: 6 rue de Braque, 75003 Paris, France.
Publications
On SITBON:
Books
Steele, Valerie, Women of Fashion: Twentieth Century Designers,New York, 1991.
Articles
Webb, Ian R., "Martine Sitbon," in Blitz (London), April 1986.
"Chloé Unveils New Design Team with Martine Sitbon," in WWD, 14 May 1987.
Maiberger, Elise, "Sitbon Pretty," in The Face (London), June 1988.
Voight, Rebecca, "Marti