Famous designer Corinne Cobson died

French designer Corinne Cobson died at 62

French designer Corinne Cobson, daughter of Dorothee Bis founders, Jacqueline and Elie Jacobson, has died at age 62 from cancer. She had created her own label back in 1987 and was renowned in the nineties for her rock’n’roll attitude. The “enfant terrible” liked to mix cotton, linen and leather to create looks that were appreciated on the music scene. She was also the costume designer of Eric Rohmer’s movie “Full moon in Paris”.

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Corinne Cobson, a nonconformist fashion designer of the 1990s who also imagined cosmetics, lingerie and furniture, died Tuesday in Paris at the age of 62, told AFP her husband Tanguy Loyzance.

“Corinne Cobson died of cancer overnight in Paris,” said Loyzance.

Corinne Cobson, the daughter of fashion designers Jacqueline and Elie Jacobson who had been involved in the boom of ready-to-wear in the late 1950s, made her debut in the family business before launching her own ready-to-wear brand. 1987.

Before, she designed the costumes of the modern and trendy woman embodied by Pascale Ogier in the Nuits of the Full Moon made in 1984 by Eric Rohmer, the manifesto film of Paris festive 80s.

Adept of the mix of genres who believed that a fashion designer should “be interested in everything, even design and industrial packaging”, Corinne Cobson has created sexy, chic and rock’n’roll silhouettes, full collections contrasts mixed uncomplicated cotton, linen or leather.

For her, the woman must feel “attractive” in simple clothes, but well cut in beautiful materials.

In the early 1990s, Corinne Cobson was one of the first stylists to grace the models without pantyhose, wearing under-the-chest sweaters and pants flush with the pubic area.

She has been on all fronts, multiplying collaborations with groups like Cacharel and L’Oréal. Recently, she imagined a collection of sofas and armchairs “neo-chic and ultra-comfortable”.