PARIS: Dutch style fashion designer Josephus Thimister, a former creative director at Balenciaga, has died at the age of 57, the French style federation stated on Wednesday.
“It is with unhappiness that the Federation de la Haute Couture et de los angeles Mode has discovered of the passing away of Josephus Thimister, whose avant-garde fashion, elegance and competencies in cutting have, for decades, contributed to the innovative momentum in Paris,” the body stated in a announcement.
Thimister worked for Balenciaga´s luxury prepared-to-wear traces from 1991 to 1997 earlier than setting up his personal house. In 2005, he became head designer at French luxurious footwear label Charles Jourdan.
Born in Maastricht in 1962, he studied on the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp earlier than operating beneath Karl Lagerfeld and Jean Patou on the House of Patou in Paris.
In 2010, having closed down his own house due to lack of investment, he was persuaded to return to Paris couture by using federation chief Didier Grumbach.
The ensuing series called “Bloodshed and Opulence” presenting Cossack jackets splattered with fake blood and trousers scorched with brown paint to resemble burns changed into described by means of one critic as “stark, bleak and worrying”.
“I am now not a political man or woman but style has a voice and it is time to explicit my perspectives,” Thimister, who became of Russian-Dutch extraction, told an interviewer at the time.
“We are nevertheless feeling the aftershock of the Bolshevik Revolution and the upward thrust of communism, whilst Europe fell aside,” he said.
“We have never recovered. We have misplaced our soul and our spirit.”
According to France´s Fashion Dictionary, Thimister made his mark at Balenciaga “via his minimalist style and exceptional capabilities in reducing in modernising the house´s image”.
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