WHAT IS C.R.E.O.L.E ?
C.R.E.O.L.E is a manifesto about the “créole” community/diaspora heritage and what we could be in the future. Questioning the status of the typical men wardrobe to unisex codes, through delicate techniques and work wear silhouette. The creole aesthetic is based on exploring expression in Fashion, out of tourism, music or entertainment. Creole culture is the legacy of communities with a colonial background who tried to rebuild themself far away of where they come from. It’s a social/historical/political point a of view from an insider, who de-exoticized the narrative. C.R.E.O.L.E is about strongly taking out the frame of exoticism in a delicate queer way. It’s an expression of identities welcoming the world with new perspectives and consciousness.
VINCENT FREDERIC-COLOMBO
Vincent FREDERIC-COLOMBO is a French Designer born in 1990, Paris and raised in Guadeloupe. Based in France since 2008 right after his graduation at the Raoul Georges Nicolo High school (Guadeloupe) in the Applied Arts section. He studied Production Design, Sociology and Anthropology, and finish his curriculum at la HEAD in Geneva (Fashion Design department) in 2011/12. Based in Paris since 2012, he worked as an Assistant manager of KOKON TO ZAI store until 2017. At same time of his experience in KOKON TO ZAI he slowly starting the CREOLE SOUL project : a fashion and visual research manifesto created in 2013.
Afterwards he started to work on this visual project with Fanny Viguier in summer 2014. This project mixed casting, art direction, design and photography.
In 2017, CREOLE by CREOLE SOUL has been the first introduction to the brand through a series of photography portraits exhibited at the Trippen store, rue saintonge in Paris. This event has been the central point in Vincent creative process, it was the first presentation for what come up next : LA CREOLE party, and the fashion brand C.R.E.O.L.E for the future.
The first LA CREOLE event took place at le chinois in Montreuil in 2018, five year later LA CREOLE is a collective co-found by Vincent and Fanny, who are now strong actors of the Parisian cultural night life. Since 2013, the C.R.E.O.L.E concept has been a manifesto for Vincent. His work for LA CREOLE and CREOLE SOUL created a creative ecosystem with several mediums to clearly introduce C.R.E.O.L.E. The quarantine was the best period to thinking about the real placements and philosophy of what will be the brand, to launched later in Spring 2021.
