For nearly six decades, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac has defied easy definition, both on the runway and off. A proto-multi-hyphenate , he’s newly familiar to a younger generation for iconic pieces like the teddy bear coat (from fall 1988) sported by Drake a few years back. That, plus riffs on cartoons, pop culture, and fashion royalty—Superman, Snoopy, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Lady Di, President Obama, Coco Chanel, Vivienne Westwood, and Sonia Rykiel are all here—converged last night in Toulouse in a preview followed by a private dinner celebrating Castelbajac’s first major “explosition.”

“Imagination au Pouvoir” (“Imagination at Work”) is the headliner at Les Abattoirs, a former slaughterhouse now converted into one of France’s leading contemporary art museums, for an eight-mont

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