Christian Gasc

Christian Gasc at the César 2013 award ceremony

Christian Gasc (* around 1946 in Dunes , Tarn-et-Garonne ) is a French costume designer .

Life

Christian Gasc has been working as a costume designer for film since the mid-1970s, after the director Liliane de Kermadec hired him for her film Aloïse , which took part in the 1975 competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival . In 1976 Gasc designed the costumes for Jeanne Moreau's directorial debut In the Spotlight . In the same year he began collaborating many times with director André Téchiné , when he entrusted him with the costume design for his film Barocco . Other joint productions included the films Encounter in Biarritz (1981), Scene of Crime (1986) and Changing Times (2004), in each of which Catherine Deneuve played a leading role. Gasc also worked with the Nouvelle Vague directors François Truffaut ( The Green Room , 1978) and Jean-Luc Godard ( Passion , 1982). In 1986 for Téchinés Rendez-Vous he received his first nomination for the César in the category Best Costumes , which he won for the first time in 1996 for the opera film Madame Butterfly . He was able to achieve this triumph with the period films Ridicule - From the ridiculousness of appearance (1996), Duel der Degen (1997) and Farewell, my queen! (2012) repeat with Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette .

In addition to Deneuve, Gasc has clothed a number of other stars of French cinema in her films over the years, including Isabelle Huppert , Isabelle Adjani , Gérard Depardieu , Fanny Ardant and Simone Signoret . Other directors he worked under were Bertrand Tavernier , Bernard Blier , Patrice Leconte and Benoît Jacquot . Regarding the importance of costume design in a film production, Gasc said in 1998: “The costume is the link between the script, the staging and the actors. And this connection must result in harmony and meaning. "

1986: Nomination for the César in the category Best Costumes for Rendez-vous
1996: César in the Best Costumes category for Madame Butterfly
1997: César in the Best Costumes category for Ridicule - On the ridiculousness of appearances
1997: Nomination for the Satellite Award in the category Best Costume Design for Ridicule - On the Ridiculousness of Appearance
1998: César in the category of best costumes for the duel of the sword
2012: Nomination for the César in the category Best Costumes for Personnel Only!
2012: Nomination for the Satellite Award in the category Best Costume Design together with Valérie Ranchoux for Farewell, my Queen!
2013: César in the Best Costumes for Goodbye My Queen!

↑ Florence Castelnau-Mendel: Les compagnons du 7e art . In: L'Express , May 21, 1998.
↑ cf. bfi.org.uk ( British Film Institute )
↑ "Le costume représente le lien entre le scene, la mise en scene et les acteurs. Et ce lien doit créer de l'harmonie, du sens. ” Quotation from Florence Castelnau-Mendel: Les compagnons du 7e art . In: L'Express , May 21, 1998.