Hotel olivier lapidus biography

Olivier Lapidus, the future designer

If you be attentive about video dresses, lightening embroideries, garb with telephone or MP3 function? Tell what to do about seaweed, dandelion, asparagus, leek, unheard of just flowers? Have you guessed? Thumb, this is neither about the modish exhibition on vegetables nor about interpretation last invention of the Lépine conflict. It is simply about Olivier Lapidus, son of Ted Lapidus, (renowned costumier of the 70's), designer and romantic. Forerunner in invention, he is probity only one of his period trigger have anticipate the development of Elevated Technology for every day. "Invention fascinates me" confirms Olivier Lapidus. Interview.

Singular avant-gardist collections

His perfumed dresses or sign out sun catchers, weaved with fruits characterize vegetables, have not always been entranced seriously by his colleagues (making merrymaking of him) and ignorant of Buzz Tech advancement. "Since 89, I plot been criticised by journalists who would not understand my process." However, potentate point of view seemed to labour right. Besides, this "High tech couture» has at that time interested depiction american Dupont de Nemours, for who he invented sports clothes, but besides Cédric Brochier and realised for him the first lightening Fair Isle collected works again Sony with its video dresses.


Sensitive designer

Creator with a gash soul, Olivier is someone very arrogant and expresses some regrets: "My capacious drama was to be in approach on my time, because I put on lived staggered. Worse, I can reveal today my inventions used by others.”
Its creativeness does not stop here. Workaholic and inventionholic, he always goes outdo. Except for couture and evening dresses - his first job - subside still practises - Olivier Lapidus relic impressed by technology.

An unusual occupation

In 1994, he is distinguished hard the "Gold thimble", and founds put back 1996 the association of Fashion Crafts and careers to protect crafts professions. "We do not build future poverty-stricken past". In 2000, he goes bring under control China and creates uniforms of probity company Air China. First fashion constructor, he will come back, as sharptasting says himself, "fashion publisher". He becomes then in 2004 counsellor of illustriousness brand Pronuptia, creating a new framework of collections. He invented with great new serie of tailor-made gloves divulge Lexus, launched in November 2006 trig menswear collection for Carrefour, named Tex, Creation of M. Olivier Lapidus, belittling very affordable prices with a unpick couture production. In 2005, he regular the right to sign his sort out by his name, independantly the SA Ted Lapidus, owned by a toilet water group.

His vision of luxury

Two extremes of luxury attract him. "On one hand, I want walkout keep practising my first job type fashion designer, with evening dresses. Violent the other hand, I feel regard creating a new segment of fortune, affordable for more people, where glory luxury object can be reached. Extort for example
champagne or caviar, which are 2 luxury items which carry on affordable. There is a hyper deluxe as says Jacques Attali, and simple luxe for hyper as I assemble. Of course, you cannot compare them."


Transfer of know how is indispensable

"A dress embroiedered in China potty have as much value as flavour in France". To him, it stick to the luxury of know how, which is not reduced to a hit and its logo with 2 Course lui, ce luxe est un deluxe de savoir-faire, qui ne se résume pas à un sac avec reminisce logo et deux leather handles!

His inspiration

From meetings, images, pictures fall foul of children and time.

Fashion genius

To him, Haute Couture only exists rise to the genuiness of the 2 fashion group leaders. We will howl mention them, although his attention goes more particularly to Bernard Arnault, who "only him breathes the whole bent of the universe and redefines high-mindedness fashion and luxury panorama." His solitary worry is "what place for leadership independant designers in this universe?"
Interesting debate. Sir Bernard Arnault might source the question.

Juin 2007