This delightful man, born in Liverpool, discovered fashion and clubs in London before becoming the milliner of Parisian haute couture. A creative life to discover tomorrow at the Palais Galliera, in Paris
Small in his tight buttoned navy jacket, almost miniature, the Briton has the radiant and ready smile which gives all his charm, lively as air. He is probably the designer with the most prolific and longest career in contemporary fashion. A state of affairs linked to his unfailing good education, his curiosity, his immense culture and his special status as a designer of “accessories”. Less publicized than his clothing colleagues, certainly, but in the industry, Stephen Jones is known as the white wolf. This child from Liverpool, born in 1957, went from the racecourses of Ascot with his parents to the bustle of the Saint Martins fashion school and the punk clubs of London in the late 1970s. Then there is the call of Jean Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler in Paris in the 1980s. And his long collaboration with John Galliano and the house of Dior which, from the end of the 1990s, established him as a star milliner. Since then, the former New…