Jeremy Scott

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

Scott was born in 1975 in Kansas City, Missouri.

He grew up partly on a farm in Lowry City and partly in a suburb outside Kansas City.

Jeremy was interested in fashion from an early age.

At 14, he began studying French and took night courses in Japanese because he was determined to become a fashion designer.

In high school, he drew fashion in his notebooks and was bullied because of his dressing style.

He discovered runway fashion in Details, looking up to Jean Paul Gaultier, Martin Margiela, Thierry Mugler, and Franco Moschino as role models.

In the same year, Scott made a show about 1980s decadence (sable, shoulder pads, big hair, gold lamé) as maybe the first designer to revive the eighties.

The models' unbalanced heels were designed by Christian Louboutin.

Opposing the prevalent minimalism, the show was panned by Vogue and others.

Scott himself considers "the gold show" as the hardest moment of his career.

In 1992, Scott moved to New York to study fashion design at Pratt Institute, one of the city's Art and Design colleges, where he wore sci-fi-inspired clothes, "1880s vs 1980s" outfits, and shredded and decaying clothes.

Scott did an internship in the New York offices of Aeffe, the company that owns Moschino.

After graduating in 1996, Scott moved to Paris.

While looking for a job in the fashion industry, he was forced to scrounge meals and sleep in the Metro.

When he ran into a PR for Jean Paul Gaultier who liked his hair (Scott cut his own hair since he was five), he got a job promoting parties at a nightclub.

Not having any luck with fashion jobs, he decided to create his own brand.

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

Known for his designs of clothes, accessories and footwear for Adidas and Moschino, Scott has consistently worked with various celebrities such as Björk, Madonna, Katy Perry, CL and 2NE1, Nicki Minaj, Fergie, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Kanye West, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, ASAP Rocky, M.I.A., Rita Ora, Cardi B, and Grimes.

As an early proponent of blending high fashion with street style, he creates designs often incorporating pop-culture icons.

The following season, in 1997, Jeremy Scott, the brand, made its debut in a bar near Bastille.

The show was based on the J. G. Ballard book and David Cronenberg film Crash, with most of the material coming from paper hospital gowns.

Scraps of fabric from the Porte de Clignancourt flea market resembling garbage bags were used in the follow-up show, all in black, which was described by Scott as "Blade Runner, trash bags and the apocalypse."

The collection was later exhibited in the influential Parisian shop Colette, which has carried Jeremy Scott ever since.

His third collection, all in white, was a critical hit.

It won awards and attracted Mario Testino, the editor of French Vogue, and Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, a French stylist, art director and photographer.

The white show was the first runway appearance of the soon-to-be-supermodel Devon Aoki, who was only 13 at the time.

His 1998 spring collection titled "Duty Free Glamour" featured flight-attendant inspired looks and khaki jackets plastered with logos.

Writing in The Times, the fashion critic Cathy Horyn pointed out the original use of the experience of a Midwesterner as a foil to jet set glamour.

Karl Lagerfeld said that Scott was the only person working in fashion who could take over Chanel after he left.

In 2001 Scott left Paris for Los Angeles.

It was seen as a surprising move, since Los Angeles was not yet a fashion capital at the time.

Scott had cemented his reputation as a cult label with fervid fans, particularly in Asia, but he was still on the fringe of the fashion establishment, as he was considered neither "serious" nor "commercial".

He closed one show in 2001 by throwing fake banknotes with his face printed on them into the audience.

At the close of another show, he shouted: "Vive l’avant-garde!", and left yellow T-shirts stamped with the message on every seat.

Scott first worked with Adidas in 2002 for the "!Signed" project, for which he created a silk jacquard with a motif of money scattered around with his own likeness replacing that of George Washington.

In 2006, Scott started his ongoing collaboration with the French leather-goods company Longchamp, which makes bags for front-row guests at his fashion shows.

He is the sole owner of his namesake label, and from October 2013 to March 2023 was the creative director of the fashion house Moschino.

(Twenty years later, the pair would collaborate again on Scott's Autumn/Winter 2016 campaign. ) Björk was an early adopter, wearing an angel dress from the white show for her Homogenic world tour.

Scott would provide costumes on several of her tours.