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- Olivier Theyskens (born January 4, 1977 in Brussels, Belgium) is the artistic director of French fashion house Nina Ricci.
He attended the École Nationale Superieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre to study fashion design, but dropped out in 1997 to start his own label. Without sufficient financial support, he was forced to close his label. While creating stage costumes for the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Theyskens was brought to public attention when one of his dresses was worn by Madonna to the... (read more) - Privacy Type:
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- Olivier Theyskens (born January 4, 1977 in Brussels, Belgium) is the artistic director of French fashion house Nina Ricci.
He attended the École Nationale Superieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre to study fashion design, but dropped out in 1997 to start his own label. Without sufficient financial support, he was forced to close his label. While creating stage costumes for the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Theyskens was brought to public attention when one of his dresses was worn by Madonna to the... (read more) - Privacy Type:
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- Puig Beauty & Fashion Group
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- Paris, France
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- NEW YORK, April 18, 2008 - The Nina Ricci flagship in Paris is getting a top-to-toe makeover. The landmark boutique at 33 Avenue Montaigne was shuttered last week for extensive construction work, including the alteration of its central staircase, to make way for a new design concept by Ricci’s artistic director, Olivier Theyskens.
The boutique is slated to reopen this summer with a decor melding elements of a typical Parisian apartment with the mood of Venice in wintertime. Elements include gray marble floors, moldings inspired by the 19th century, walls covered with jacquard fabric and futuristic furniture.
Having applied his ethereal and romantic approach to Ricci’s fashion collections for the past three seasons, Theyskens is now extending his aesthetic to the retail floor and, later this year, to a complete accessories collection.
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PARIS, March 2, 2008 – Under Olivier Theyskens' guidance, Nina Ricci is going through a metamorphosis. The label was originally a frilly lady brand, but he is steering it toward a young, hip girl with an unshowy rockster personality. To get there, Theyskens took her hand today and led her through a long trail in the woods, dressing her in clothes tinted and textured with the vegetal yellowy-greeny-brownish colors of fallen leaves or hibernating moths. "Strange and poetic," he called it, "but not dark."
In practical terms, the whole of the first passage was about layerings of soft jackets, wispy underlayers, and an extended riff on multiple versions of a twisty-legged pant—jodhpurlike above, skinny-legged below, each shading seamlessly downward into a matching shoe-boot. If the pant never quite hit the mark (there's a general question mark hovering over "creative" trousers this season, and Theyskens' didn't remove it), the array of jackets and the tonal subtleties kept the eye seduced. Ochre, dull yellows, khaki, rust, and chestnut progressed into greens, plastery pinks, and dusty blues as the top layers resolved into a series of great cutaway tailcoats with rounded shoulders reminiscent of beetle wings.
Underscored by an ominous soundtrack, the cumulative effect touched another note on the scale of sub-horror-movie themes that have been playing through the collections. Finally, the chrysalis imagery broke open into dresses and strapless evening gowns, some detailed with a suggestion of vestigial wings. That put Theyskens back on familiar territory—a long way from conventional party dressing, and recognizably faithful to the sensibility he began working with as a gothy, romantic Belgian youngster at the beginning of his career.
– Sarah Mower
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Olivier will present his Nina Ricci A/W 2008-2009 collection on Sunday, March 2nd at 11:00 am at the Espace Ephémère Tuileries - Jardin des Tuileries - Paris 1er.
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SAG Alert: As predicted, Ellen Pompeo and Marion Cotillard wore Nina Ricci to the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Runway looks: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30069703&l=b5631&id=1465920124
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NINA RICCI PRE-FALL 2008 REVIEW:
NEW YORK, January 15, 2008 – The much talked-about gown he's made for Lauren Davis' Cartagena, Colombia, wedding to Andres Santo Domingo is still under wraps, but Olivier Theyskens was happy to be in New York today, showing off his pre-fall collection. Motifs that are quickly becoming Nina Ricci signatures—short dresses that twist around the body; narrow but never uptight suits; slouchily asymmetric sweaters; and a muted, dusty palette—abounded. This time, they called to mind not club kids coming home from an all-nighter, as the designer's Spring collection did, but the more sophisticated atmosphere of the London and Paris salons of the 1930's. Imagine Nancy Cunard or Vita Sackville-West lounging in a dove gray dress with a rolled silk neckline that trailed down the bodice like a wisp of smoke, and you get the picture. Equally lovely was a watercolor floral silk evening gown—it'd be just the thing for a society wedding, but we're guessing Davis doesn't plan on sharing Theyskens this weekend.
– Nicole Phelps
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"Olivier Theyskens is the Johhny Depp of fashion."
-Natalie Horilla
http://fashionista.com/2007/12/olivier_theyskens_is_the_johhn.php
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NINA RICCI SPRING 2008 REVIEW:
PARIS, October 7, 2007 – "It was a group of girls you'd see on the street in the early morning coming from a ball," explained Olivier Theyskens. His wispy raggle-taggle troupe was wending its way home in a particularly poetic state of dishevelment, of course. Their clothes were ombré-tinted in subtle grays and browns, as if smudged by the murky first light of a city day. The opening girl had pulled on her boyfriend's dusty tux, which had come apart at the back, over an artfully wilted twisted satin tunic. Others had draped sloppy, holey cardigans over the shredded remains of charmeuse and chiffon, trailing stringy feather boas as they walked. Some, possibly, were even down to their shirts or slips (you know how you start losing things on a long night out?), and one had wrapped a blanket—or maybe the dance-hall curtain—over her chiffon gown.
One shouldn't read too much into the narrative, though, because Theyskens doesn't come from the older generation of theme-led designers. Instead, this collection was a reassertion of his Belgian identity. It's as if he reached a fork in his career when he arrived at Nina Ricci, deciding to take the path of underground edginess rather than Parisian chic—a distinct divergence from the road he took at Rochas. Now his vision skews young and urban, and includes jodhpur-ish jeans, patchworked tour T-shirts, hip baseball jackets, and a sense of working toward a new, layered assemblage of casual dressing. Up to a point, anyway. For evening, Theyskens was fully back within his familiar zone of strapless ball-gown romance. The paper-thin silver fan-pleated taffeta, twisted metallic velvet, and diaphanous chiffon poufed in back with a demi-crinoline were beautiful, if a tad familiar—but in terms of interest, what he's doing for day is the thing to watch.
– Sarah Mower