André Courrèges
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André Courrèges (born March 9, 1923) is a French fashion designer, known for his ultra-modern designs. Born in Pau in 1923. At the age of 25, after studying to be a civil engineer, he went to Paris to work at Geanne Lafaurie fashion design house. A few months later he went over to Balenciaga, the renowned Spanish designer. Courrèges, "the lord of the miniskirt," gave women freedom of body and comfortable simplicity. He built his dresses rather than designed them. The shapes of his clothes are geometric: squares, trapezoids, triangles. In 1965, he launched a shocking campaign and revolutionalised the fashion world.
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