BUILDING A BETTER FUTUR E

Made Knight of the National Order of Québec in 1996 and promoted to Officer in 2012, Jean-Claude Poitras has had an exceptional career in fashion design. He now devotes himself to the world of design at large, as the leitmotif of a search for excellence, innovation and quest for identity.

UNE SOURCE D’INSPIRATION

« Enfant, je voulais devenir source d’inspiration », dit celui qui se rappelle l’influence et l’appui de sa grand-mère adorée dans la recherche de sa voie. D’abord vendeur au grand magasin Eaton en 1972, Jean-Claude persiste à croire en ses rêves et à ne jamais renoncer. He launched his first workshop-boutique Parenthèse in Old Montréal, his muse Colette Chicoine around his arm, and the rest is history!

AVANT-GARDE STRAIGHT AHEAD!

“I identify with the historical character of Jean Cocteau, recognized for this creativity without borders, an avant-garde of multidisciplinary ranging from pœtry to playwriting to filmmaking, designing and so much more!”

Ses pairs dans le métier, tant admirés ? « Je nomme Philippe Starck, Jean Nouvel, David Almond et Yayoi Kusama, parmi tant d’autres ! »

RÉINVENTER LE MONDE

La création qu’il aurait souhaité imaginer lui-même ? Le tant-vénéré Habitat 67, cette création unique et caractérielle de son temps tout, signée Moshe Safdie. A fantasy brainstorm he dreams of? “I would have over Jean d’Ormesson, the Christo couple, Jeanne-Claude and the much-missed Agnès Varda to reinvent the world, together”.

A WORD TO CONCLUDE

Celebrating forty years of an exceptional career, the great Poitras leaves us on this thought…“If you’ve never made mistakes, known failures or fallen off the wagon, it simply means you never dared to act, undertake, create… follow your dreams to the fullest!”