Socialite barbie2/28/2023 The official launching was organized at legendary decorator Jansen, Rue Royale. In 1984, BillyBoy* opened with his companion/partner Jean Pierre Lestrade/Lala his own “Surreal Bijoux” workshop and showroom in the mythical Rue de la Paix in Paris. The Musée des Arts de la Mode, initiated by Yvonne Deslandres, welcomes an very important part of BillyBoy*'s Surreal Couture creations into its permanent collection. The exhibition was a big success and had a great impact on fashion world-wide, bringing the Surrealism he adored back into fashion again in a huge way. At the same time he'd interview some of his various teenage year celebrity friends such as Marlene Dietrich, Arletty, Suzy Delair, André Courrèges, Pierre Balmain etc and other pre-war and post-war fashion and art stars who'd help him with his research on Schiaparelli. In 1982, BillyBoy* was contacted by the City of Paris and the Musée Galliéra to organize the first official retrospective on the work and career of his muse Elsa Schiaparelli, for which he lends many pieces from his own collections and writes a text in the catalogue, interviewing some of the most famous people of the era of Schiaparelli, whom he befriended, such as Jean Schlumberger, Diego Giacometti, René Gruau, Bernard Buffet, André Beaurepaire, Eliane Bonabel and Hubert de Givenchy, Philippe Venet, Yves Saint Laurent amongst many others. They were showcased in the windows of the prestigious store. Greeted by an article in THE NEW YORK TIMES reviews the innovative and wildly eccentric, bright colored jewels. The collection is sold out almost instantly. The “surreal” jewellery he created were making a sensation in Paris and were immediately admired and noticed by Gerry Stutz, owner of Henri Ben del’s department store in New York City who ordered 100 pieces for her store. They instantly start working on projects, notably creating jewellery in the kitchen of their apartment.īillyBoy* met at the time Bettina Graziani, socialite and former high fashion model from the 1950s. BillyBoy* asks Lala to help him find an apartment in Paris and they move in together in October of 1983. This article was the first step which led to the first Elsa Schiaparelli retrospective in Paris, which was based around his already huge collection.īillyBoy* meets Jean Pierre Lestrade, a.k.a Lala, at the time leader of the camp New Wave band Lala et les Emotions in which he is the singer and songwriter. Another feature article about the life and work of Elsa Schiaparelli in the short-lived Condé Nast publication VOGUE Beauté (with a Guy Bourdin cover) includes documents and pieces from his collection and he is also quoted as a "young genius expert collector and multi-talented artist". His own clothes inspired Jean Paul Gaultier to make his first men’s collection of clothes. He is compared to the famous artist and is considered the modern 1980s equivalent. He spends time with 1920s artist/designer Erté in Palma de Majorca which is featured in the article. The immensely snobbish and trendy French magazine ACTUEL published a 14-page cover story article about him humorously titled " At Last, a Normal Young Man". Preceeded by his reputation as an artist and designer and his eccentric looks, he was welcomed at his arrival on his Concorde flight to Paris by a TV crew and journalists. In 1979 , BillyBoy* took the decision to leave New York and moved to Paris. He also actively collected vintage fashions notably French haute couture garments and accessories with a predilection for Elsa Schiaparelli who he considers as his muse. He initiated the first US Barbie adult collector’s club. Since a very early age he had a passion for fashion dolls, notably the Barbie doll, although he collected many others, all of which he collected thoroughly and with a feverish passion. At that time he had a modernist house filled with 50s designer furniture, a 1950 Cadillac and a modernistic studio to paint. Later he opened a decoration and art gallery on the West Coast, (in the famous art community of Newport, Oregon) promoting designs from the 1950s and 1960s as well as vintage clothes named Fly By Nite. His first move was to open an alternative art gallery named Pizzaz Gallery in New York where he showed his own paintings and collages as well as other unknown artists works. He went to the Montessori School in New York where he could express his instinctive creative sense: he became independent at the early age of 16. Of Austrian origin, born in the 1960s, BillyBoy* was an adopted child and grew up partially in the United States, partially in Europe.
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