Chronicle: Stephan Janson, the last blue white red couturier from Milan

Spontini stop

Before landing in Milan, Stephan Janson lived a first life under the sign of Ysl.The Mondrian dress on the cover of Vogue?" A shock.I was eight years old, I lived in Valréas in Vaucluse, and I asked my mother and my grandmother but why don't you dress like that?»Grandmother Bérénice, who then holds the first boutique of Jean’s never open after the war in the region, offers her a machine-on for Christmas.As a teenager, Stephan Janson is sent to Paris to his mother, remarried to a generous gentleman and also very friend with Zizi Jeanmaire, dressed ysl in the city as on the stage."I was going to see her every Sunday afternoon at the music hall.Intrigued, she invited me to her lodge, thinking that I wanted to become a singer or dancer.

- No, I want to be a designer!

-So therefore Wednesday evening, you will meet Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé!»»

Stephan Janson, 14.Billy Elliott de la sewing."We lived on rue de la Faisanderie in the 16th century.A stone's throw from rue Spontini.Every day after high school, I was doing a hook.This is how we became friends."Between teenagers and adults, Janson is expanding her ysl cloakroom for men:" official "outfits paid by step-papa, are added the unwelcome pieces that have remained invented at the store and ceded at low prices.

We then find Stephan Janson in Saint-Tropez, 16, his machine-to-coat under the elbow and on the beach, sewing boxers in the cotton pockets of Louis Vuitton bags and, with the falls,thong.Successful success.To learn, he will soon work at Kenzo."I spent my first salary in a yellow cashmere sweater from Adnan, avenue Victor-Hugo."Bac mention very well in his pocket, he wants to join the benches of the famous Studio Berto where we teach fashion.Yves Saint Laurent imposed Saint-Roch to him, then school of Cousettes frozen in the 1950s.“We imposed projects of the guard's kind for a weekend in Deauville in Bleu-Blanc-Rouge.»With my bridge pants and naked bellies, the verdict was brittle: you will never do anything!»»

Luxury for good

In 1980, he went to New York to draw the collections of designer Diane von fürstenberg.Then, a few years later, it will be Milan.Janson is the only French creator to settle there."The time was at the Armani duel against Versace. Dolce & Gabbana étaient débutants.»Fashion journalists press him to present his career plan.He answers them that he just wants to be happy by continuing to imagine clothes.A UFO.Janson is forging an image of iconoclast by parading in atypical places like this church deconstated in the Corso Italia, the metro or even the auction house it punctuates, lit in the candle.If he has not paraded for twenty years, Janson remains engraved in the memory of Milanese fashion for a famous parade where his models were carried by the "collars" (servants, good, cleaning women) of his wealthy customers."A racist extreme-right mayor had just been elected in Milan.A Senegalese friend took care of the casting.Than black women.It was my best parade!Two customers exulted: their Guardarobia were parade!As for music, Turkish steps, everyone believed that it was African!»»