By the 1980s, Moroccan-born designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac was leading a class of new age, avant-garde, designers fusing pop art and fashion with iconoclastic themes. Drawing inspiration from music, film, and contemporary art, Castelbajac famously collaborated with iconic artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Robert Combas and has styled luminaries including Pope John Paul II and Madonna.

"I belong to a generation where conversation, correspondence and reading was the essential, so I have been fed by that."