Jeremy Scott

At 48 years old, Jeremy Scott has this physical status:

Jeremy Scott (born August 8, 1975) is an American fashion designer.

He is the creative director of Moschino's fashion house and the sole proprietor of his namesake brand.

Since launching his brand in Paris in 1997, Scott has earned a reputation as the "most irreverent designer" and "fashion's last rebel."

Early life and education

Scott was born in 1975 in Kansas City, Missouri. He grew up partly on a farm in Lowry City and part in a suburb outside Kansas City. Jeremy was involved in fashion from an early age. Because he was determined to be a fashion designer, he began studying French and took night classes in Japanese at 14. He drew fashion in his notebooks and was teased because of his dressing style in high school. In Detail, he discovered runway fashion, paying tribute to Jean Paul Gaultier, Martin Margiela, Thierry Mugler, and Franco Moschino as role models. Scott studied fashion design at Pratt Institute, one of the city's Art and Design colleges, in 1992, where he wore sci-inspired clothes, "1880s vs. 1980s" outfits, and shredded and decaying clothing. Scott spent an internship in Aeffe, the company that owns Moschino.

Personal life

Jim, an engineer, and Sandy, a tutor, are Jeremy's parents. Barbara, a lawyer, and James, two older siblings, Jeremy, and James. Since he began designing, members of his family have attended nearly every exhibition.

Scott owns two houses built by John Lautner: the Foster-Carling House (1947) in the Hollywood Hills and the Elrod House (1969) in Palm Springs. He is a vegetarian.

Jeremy Scott is gay and has been open about his sexuality since the age of 14.

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Career

Scott moved to Paris after graduating in 1996. When searching for a career in fashion, he was forced to scrounge meals and sleep in the Metro. He got a job promoting dances at a nightclub when he turned into a PR for Jean Paul Gaultier, who loved his hair (Scott cut his own hair when he was five years old). He didn't have a chance in fashion, so he decided to start his own business.

Jeremy Scott, the brand's first entrepreneur, made its debut in a bar near Bastille in 1997. The display was based on the J. G. Ballard book and David Cronenberg's film Crash, with the bulk of the material originating from paper hospital gowns. In the follow-up show, scraps of fabric from the Porte de Clignancourt flea market resembling garbage bags were used, all in black, with Scott referring to them as "Blade Runner," garbage bags, and the apocalypse. The collection was later displayed in Colette, a famous Parisian store, which has carried Jeremy Scott for the first time ever.

His third collection, which was all in white, was a critical success. It was nominated for prizes and attracted Mario Testino, the editor of French Vogue, and Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, a French stylist, art director, and photographer. Devon Aoki, the up-and-coming supermodel, appeared on runway for the first time when he was only 13 years old at the time. (Twenty years later, the two will work together again on Scott's Autumn/Winter 2016 campaign.) Björk was a young adopter, sporting an angel dress from the white show for her Homogenic world tour. On several of her tours, Scott will have costumes.

Scott exhibited 1980s decadence (sable, shoulder pads, long hair, gold lamé) in the same year as the first designer to revive the eighties. Christian Louboutin created the models' unbalanced heels. The show was panned by Vogue and others, defying the common minimalism. Scott describes "the gold show" as his "most challenging moment in his career.

The HIs 1998 spring collection titled "Duty Free Glamour" featured flight-attendant inspired looks and khaki jackets stamped with logos. Cathy Horyn, a fashion critic, argued that the original use of a Midwesterner's experience as a counter to jet set glamour was in The Times. After leaving Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld said Scott was the only one working in fashion who would take over Chanel.

In 2001, Scott left Paris for Los Angeles. Since Los Angeles was not yet a fashion capital at the time, it was seen as a strange development.

Scott had cemented his brand as a cult brand with ardent followers, particularly in Asia, but he was still on the fringe of fashion history, being deemed neither "serious" nor "commercial." He ended one show in 2001 by handing fake banknotes with his name imprinted on them into the audience. "Vive l'avant-garde!" at the end of another exhibition. "This message was stamped on every seat, and on every seat, the yellow T-shirts were stamped with the word."

Scott began his long-running relationship with Longchamp, which manufactures bags for front-row attendees at his fashion shows in 2006.

Scott first worked for Adidas in 2002 on the "Signed" project, for which he made a silk jacquard with a motif of money scattered around with his own likeness in place of George Washington's. The forum was based on Adidas' classic high-top model. The shoe was made in the Adidas Scheinfeld, Germany. There were only 100 pairs made: 50 went to Scott and 50 went to Adidas; 50 went to Adidas. In Fall/Winter 2013, Scott will revisit the scheme with Money Wings 2.0.

However, his most well-known Adidas partnership began in 2008 when Adidas Originals introduced JS Wings (winged high-tops) and the JS Bears (furry sneakers with teddy bear heads). Scott's footwear gained him a lot of attention early in his career, including Lil Wayne. His sneakers have been dubbed "one of the most eye-catching footwear ever seen," according to "an indisputable imprint on the shoe industry." His iconic wings have appeared in a variety of Adidas silhouettes over the years. Smart cars and baby prams were also used by him on other items for other clients.

In 2011, he collaborated with Swatch in developing three watch styles that were praised as the Swatch's "return to its "uber-fun Eighties roots" after Scott's "pop aesthetic, fun twist, and overstated form.

Scott appeared in the Adidas 2012 print and video ads with Nicki Minaj, Sky Ferreira, and 2NE1. In the 2012 Super Bowl halftime performance, Madonna's dancers wore Jeremy Scott track suits for Adidas Originals.

After being chastised for their bright yellow handcuffs, which some believed to be "shackles" alluding to slavery, Adidas decided in June 2012 that a pair of sneakers created by Scott named the JS Roundhouse Mids would not be available. Scott denied that the shoes had anything to do with slavery, insisting that it was a mention of the children's toy My Pet Monster.

Scott's Fall 2012 collection included 1990s nostalgia, as shown by many computer traces such as a printed gloved-hand cursor and '90s-era Mac screenshots. With a vacuum-formed plexiglass bustier encrusted in hundreds of Frank stickers, he paid homage to Lisa Frank.

Scott plagiarized Santa Cruz Skateboards' designs in February 2013. Santa Cruz and Scott have signed a deal in which Scott has stopped producing his collections.

In a glass version of his Adidas winged sneakers, he launched his first fragrance for Adidas on February 1, 2015. Harley Quinn's character in the 2016 film Suicide Squad features high-top heels from Jeremy Scott's 2014 collaboration with Adidas.

Scott was appointed as Moschino's creative director in October 2013. After turning down several other offers, he selected the Italian brand because it had a similar irreverent strategy, with founder Franco Moschino seeing fashion as a form of resistance.

Scott introduced his first Moschino collection in fall 2014 after redesigneding the entire Pre-Fall range. Through the eyes of an American (McDonald's handbags, popcorn dresses, nutrition-label ballgowns, SpongeBob SquarePants fur coats), he re-told Franco Moschino's fashion gags (rubbish bags, witty slogans, beefeater hats). An example of his proces was a vis-a-vis jacket in McDonald's colors (ketchup-red and yellow) with a matching quilted leather handbag carrying a golden "M" in the shape of a heart. Moschino Toy was his first Moschino fragrance. With the spray nozzle under its head, the bottle actually looked like a teddy bear.

"In his 2015 manifesto in The Guardian, Scott outlined his commitment to American consumer culture: "In Mumbai, Timbuktu, and Los Angeles, Mickey Mouse's image is known." Even if you subvert it by, say, sticking Mickey ears on an army helmet (as I did in 2007), a large number of my collections are inspired by nostalgia. In fact, his fashion is often amusing: a 2016 exhibit featured a handbag that looked like a box of Marlboro Reds and bore the warning Fashion Kills.

Scott and Moschino were sued in August 2015 for copyright violation in connection with the Moschino Fall/Winter 2015 clothing collection. According to the original complaint, the garments in question were "literal copies" of the plaintiff's work. The case was dismissed out of court.

The Florentine Bonfire of the Vanities of 1497 inspired his Moschino Fall/Winter 2016 collection. Shards of mirrors, a defunct grand chandelier, and the innards of a lost grand piano were among the dresses. A few dresses were followed by trails of smoke on the runway in a scientific first because of integrated smoke machines inside. The fall 2016 series of his personal brand in New York included cartoony Max Headroom and rockabilly guitar prints, glitzy high-heeled cowboy boots, and cow print denim. After a vintage store in Los Angeles on Melrose Avenue in 1950s poppies that introduced the 1950s rockabilly sound to 1980s punks, it was branded "Cowboys and Poodles."

Scott narrated and art directed a Moschino Barbie doll, based on 1980 and nineties toy commercials. Since it was the first Barbie commercial to feature a child, it attracted notice. Scott addressed the internet generation's obsession with 2D screens in the Moschino Spring/Summer 2017 series. In 2D, Moschino's gold accessories, leather jackets, and larger-than-life brand were rendered, as well as life-size pull tabs and stuck-on accessories of old paper dolls.

Scott has been credited with revitalizing the Moschino brand, raising its revenues and turning it into a fan favorite.

Beyoncé, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Nicki Minaj were all outfitting show business celebrities as part of Scott's career. Any of them, like Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, and CL, have collaborated with him so often that they've earned the nickname "the Jezza posse." "I understand pop culture's language, and these individuals are totems of pop culture," Scott said of his celebrity.

Scott designed the costumes for pop star Katy Perry's appearance on the Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show in January 2015. Perry introduced his custom bustier on the front page of Rolling Stone. The designer and the singer began collaborating ten years earlier, well before Perry's first album came out.

In the "We Found Love" music video, Rihanna wore Jeremy Scott's denim bra top and circle skirt. Scott created the retro-futuristic stewardess frock worn by Britney Spears in her "Toxic" video. In "Paparazzi," he conceived Lady Gaga's outfit. Scott and Madonna, who focuses on the original music/fashion icon, were among the guests at the Anna Wintour Costume Center gala in 2015. Nicki Minaj and Demi Lovato's outfits were worn at the 2016 Met Gala.

For a photoshoot with Kermit the Frog as Andy Warhol, Scott posed The Muppets' Miss Piggy. On more than one occasion, including her front row appearance at his fashion preview and for The Muppets world premiere, she has styled Piggy on her own. He redesigned the Moonman statuette as the creative director for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2015.

Scott has been dubbed fashion's equivalent of Andy Warhol. In the pop art-centric "Too Popular" section, the Vulgar: Fashion Redefined, a British exhibition based on various theories of vulgarity, featured Scott's sweet wrapper-themed dresses alongside Warhol's Souper Dress.

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