Roland Mouret

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Roland Mouret (born August 27, 1961 in Lourdes , France ) is a French fashion designer .

Life

Mouret is the son of a butcher . At the age of 17 (1978) he went to Paris and attended a fashion school there for three months. In 1981 Jean-Paul Gaultier discovered him in a nightclub and booked him as a model . He later worked as a stylist for magazines such as ID , Glamor and others.

At the end of the 1980s he moved to London and opened a bar in Soho . In 1996 he designed his own fashion for the first time under the People Corporation label and in 1998 showed his first collection under his own name at London Fashion Week .

In 2005 he invented the Galaxy dress, which popularized wearers such as Demi Moore and Victoria Beckham . In 2006 he founded the company "19RM" with Simon Fuller . In 2007 he presented his fashion for the first time under the new label "RM" in Paris.

Mouret can neither draw nor sew, but designs his fashion directly on the model.

Awards

  • 2002: British Designer of the Year

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