Draft:Jean-Claude Jitrois

Jean-Claude Jitrois, born on January 10, 1944, in Narbonne, is a fashion designer, designer, and French publisher. His real name is Jean-Claude Coste. He is the founder of the ready-to-wear fashion house, Jitrois Pariss Jean-Claude Jitrois - La biographie de Jean-Claude Jitrois avec Voici.fr 2

Biography
Son of Edmond Coste, a graduate of the military school in Salon-de-Provence and an officer in the French Air Force, and Émilienne Girod, he grew up in Aix-en-Provence and then followed his father's military assignments to Algeria, in Oran and then Algiers.

At eighteen, he left for Paris to study psychomotricity at the Salpêtrière Hospital Salpêtrière hospital.

On May 6, 1964, he married Jeanine Forestier with whom he had a daughter : Caroline Michaud

In 1971, he married Édith Wolgensinger with whom he had a son: Jerome.

In 1975, Jean-Claude Jitrois was appointed by Simone Veil, then Minister of Health, at the direction of the Higher Institute of Psychomotor Rehabilitation of Nice, , He will co-sign a book with Giselle Soubiran, then director of the Higher Institute of Psychomotor Rehabilitation in Paris, in 1975 entitled Psychomotor skills and psychosomatic relaxation written in collaboration with Giselle Soubiran, then Body and Graphics

In 1975, Jean Claude published three other books, The 50 keywords of psychomotricity and Psycho-syntonic relaxation (both in 1976) and finally the “What do I know?» on Psychomotricity in 1977.

He taught psychomotor skills until 1976, when he opened his first store, rue Tonduti de l'Escarène, in Nice. There he will rub shoulders with the artists and above all meet Stéphanie from Monaco who invites her friends to come to the store to try Jitrois creations. There he meets Niki de Saint Phalle and Ben. Another store was opened a few months later in Juan-les-Pins, then in Antibes and finally in Saint-Tropez.

In 1995, Jean-Claude Jitrois created his first pieces in stretch leather Jean-Claude Jitrois became Jitrois: Stretch leather. This revolutionary material for the time was then developed with the Dupont de Nemours company. In 2009, he managed to make leather ironable and machine washable.

In 1998: the stylist creates “Skin Jean". These are pants whose colors vary depending on the extension given to them by the moving muscles. The same year, he designed the Minoray line where leather strips were sewn onto silk organza . This collection will be photographed by Helmut Newton for the calendar « Jitrois 1998 ».

In 2012, the ready-to-wear union chamber of couturiers and fashion designers elected the Jitrois house as associate members.

Jean-Claude Jitrois was named knight of the Legion of Honor, then promoted to officer in janvier 2012.

He developed his first perfume, named Jitrois in 1988, designed by the Grasse perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena.

In 2016, Jean-Claude Jitrois took part in the retrospective of at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in one of its stores on Madison Avenue in New York.

Jitrois expanded across the United States, opening a store on Madison Avenue in New York. This was followed by Aspen and a “Shop in Shop» in Bal Harbor, Miami.

The Jitrois stores are designed by Christophe Pillet, , collaborator of Philippe Starck for more than ten years.

Top models such as Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell , Stella Tennant , wear his collections.

Celebrities such as Beyoncé, Nancy Ajram , FKA Twigs , wear its products.

Distinction

 * Officier de la Légion d'honneur (2012)