The New Courrèges
Arnaud Vaillant et Sébastien Meyer,
aged 25 and 26 respectively, winners of the ANDAM 2014 award and finalists for the LVMH 2015 Prize, have been named Courrèges’ new artistic directors in May 2015. They will present their first collection for Courrèges for SS16, which will be distributed in a limited number of selective points of sale.
Sébastien and Arnaud met in 2009 as students at a Paris fashion school, they created their own brand, Coperni, in 2013. Sébastien studied styling and pattern making, while Arnaud concentrated on the fashion business. Inspired by the Brutalist movement, they take an architectural approach to the silhouette, which becomes stripped-down and minimalist. Form is the foundation of Coperni’s aesthetic language.