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French fashion designer

This article is about the fashion designer. For the jockey, see Christophe Lemaire.

Christophe Lemaire (born April 1965) is a French fashion designer, founder of eponymous label Lemaire and former creative director at Hermès and Lacoste. He is noted for his simple, elegant design style, as well as his collaborations with brands such as Japanese retailer Uniqlo.

Early life

Lemaire was born in the town of Besançon in France.^[1] He described his upbringing as that of a "typical French bourgeois family," travelling between Senegal and France and attending boarding school. His parents are divorced.^[2] His uncle is Robert Caillé, publisher of Vogue France.^[3] At seventeen, he dated fellow future designer Isabel Marant, the two designing clothes and selling them to stores on consignment.^[4] He credits the work of Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo for sparking his interest Thierry hermes biography.