Jean-Charles DE CASTELBAJAC (also known as JC/DC) was born on 28 November 1949 in Morocco. He is a French-Moroccan stylist, costume designer, fashion photographer and art collector, descendant of an old noble family from Bigorre. After various experiences in ready-to-wear in the 1970s, he founded the company bearing his brand at the dawn of the 1980s and made himself known to the public by his innovative approach filled with recycling and references to childhood or art, all in a very often colorful atmosphere. In a mixture of genres with his activity as a designer for his shops, he dresses throughout his career many artists, as well as media personalities; these personalities, like Farah Fawcett, Vanessa Paradis or Lady Gaga, will offer him significant visibility by wearing some of his most emblematic creations, sometimes dressed in teddy bears or frogs. From the same generation of creation as Thierry Mugler, Claude Montana, Jean Paul Gaultier or Kenzo Takada, in the 1980s he was one of these “young designers” who renewed the fashion of the time, refusing the conformism of the traditional haute couture, to which he will eventually give in, once, in the 2000s. Throughout his career, having a taste for meetings, he knows how to surround himself with contemporary artists who participate in his creations, and has collaborated for decades with many varied brands in the field of clothing, consumption, or furniture. After a short stint with André Courrèges with whom he is sometimes compared, he creates liturgical garments for the World Youth Days. In the mid-2000s, he was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum as well as the Paris Fashion Museum. Knight of the Legion of Honor, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is also Commander of the Arts and Letters. The 2010s marked the designer's return to the fashion scene, the creator becoming artistic director of Le Coq Sportif and Bennetton.