The young designer Charles de Vilmorin finally launches his ready-to-wear (but it looks expensive, sorry)

If Tim Burton took LSD with Niki de Saint Phalle, would more or less resemble Charles de Vilmorin’s aesthetic full of half-monstrous, half-fairy, hyper-colorful creatures. Often presented by the media as the young prodigy of the sector, the designer was appointed, just a few weeks after presenting his first haute couture collection, artistic director of the Rochas house in February 2021. But just two years later, he slams the door and becomes more discreet. Now he returns to launch his ready-to-wear line, with a first autumn-winter 2024-2025 collection. He will present it as part of Paris Fashion Week (which will take place from February 26 to March 5, 2024)has just revealed the WWD who got the scoop on the information.

By the way, who is Charles de Vilmorin?

Charles de Vilmorin is a Nepo, darling why the world, and especially France, loves them so much. Born in 1996 into the large Lévêque de Vilmorin family (which has its own Wikipedia page, sorry). The father works in finance for large luxury houses, the mother is a drawing teacher, while the great-aunt, Louise de Vilmorin, is a scholar, formerly of the writer André Malraux (who was however Minister of Culture Minister of Culture from 1959 to 1969) and great friend of Hélène Rochas (wife of the founder of the Rochas house) in the fashionable Paris of the 1950s. In short, she was the perfect fertile ground to create a small seed of a great and adored designer.

After an internship at Lanvin during his time at Alber Elbaz when he was in college, he earned his high school diploma and trained in fashion design at the Chamber of Union of Parisian Couture, while also dabbling in modeling. He then obtained a master’s degree in business creation at the French Fashion Institute which must end with a compulsory internship which he carries out with himself (he never worked for other houses). This is how he presents his graduation collection on Instagram, purchased by a mysterious collector. It is this that allows him to finance his first haute couture collection, sponsored by Jean-Paul Gaultier to complement the official calendar if coded as a guest.

Just a few weeks after his first show for the spring-summer 2021 haute couture, Charles de Vilmorin becomes artistic director of the Rochas maison for which he presents his first ready-to-wear collection in September of the same year. Two years later, he leaves to dedicate himself again to the brand that bears his name and launches a capsule with Galeries Lafayette for the end-of-year holidays. So it was only a matter of time before he officially launched his ready-to-wear.

According to WWD, this first ready-to-wear collection by Charles de Vilmorin should contain 25 pieces, including dresses, denim shorts, shirts, a trench coat (the most expensive piece, around 2,000 euros), bomber jackets (pieces that have made the rounds networks at the beginning) and silk scarves colored with a double reading poem by George Sand. All made in Paris, which suggests a hell of a price.

As talented as Charles de Vilmorin is with his unique universe, it remains important to note that the rules of the industry are clearly designed for his success.

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