User:Truthclame/sandbox/Che Frantz

Che Frantz, London based conceptual and polymathic artist. His early activities spans many different careers such as trading securities at Lloyds’ to managing pop bands, most notably: 2-4 Family, with Jo O'Meara to two top 10 hits. He is an acclaimed interior designer, set designer and a creative director. He has been nominated for the Time Out Restaurant Designer Of The Year, with Sumosan in Mayfair, has won The Time Out Entertainer Of The Year Award as a member of The Pioneers and the fashion film of the year.

He has worked as a designer in fashion and for eight years was the Artistic Director of HEMYCA, a Chelsea based fashion brand with exploded onto the scene when Anna Winter and Paul’s Wella attended their London Fashion week show. He has been making fashion films, calling and producing high profile fashion shows for the best part of two decades.

In the mid nineties Che created the unique solid silver wig for which he has become known and which has spawned many imitations and famous admirers.

Referring to himself as an “archival memoirist - into kitsch-abstract-retro; alien yet familiar worlds,” Che studied at Central Saint Martins, Camberwell collage of art before attending Goldsmiths where he was awarded 2 further MA’s and an MPhil and is also a cultural historian.