Olivier Rousteing Biography – Olivier Rousteing Wiki
Olivier Rousteing is a French fashion designer. He has been the creative director of Balmain since 2011. He was brought up in Bordeaux and moved to Paris to study at ESMOD (Ecole Supérieure des Arts et Techniques de la Mode). Like Jacquemus, he dropped out in his first year citing a lack of creative freedom. After completing internships in Italy, in 2003, he started his career as a designer at Roberto Cavalli.
In 2003, he started his career at Roberto Cavalli, where he was promoted to creative director of the Italian label’s women’s ready-to-wear collection, serving for five years in that position. He became part of Balmain in 2009. During his early time at Balmain, he worked closely with Christophe Decarnin, then the French fashion house’s creative director.
On April 26, 2011, when he was 25, he replaced Christophe Decarnin as the creative director of Balmain. While he liked Decarnin’s aesthetic, he wanted to orient the label towards the finer aspects of French couture. At the time of his appointment, Rousteing was a relatively unknown designer and brought a much-needed fresh take on the brand’s aesthetic that remains to this day. He has been credited with adding an Asian influence to the clothing, as Asia comprises a huge part of the brand’s buyers. Rousteing says his age, initial anonymity, and especially race led to grumblings amongst the fashion establishment. “People were like, ‘Oh my God, he’s a minority taking over a French house!'” He told Out magazine in 2015.
Since his arrival, menswear now accounts for 40 percent of Balmain’s revenue. While the company did not release figures, it was estimated that Balmain’s revenue increased 15 to 20 percent between 2012 and 2015. He opened a Balmain store in London, Balmain’s stand-alone boutique outside of Paris. A New York City store opened in SoHo in April 2016. Other stores are in the planning stage.
With the help of A-List celebrity friends like Kim Kardashian, Kelly Rowland, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Bjork, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, EMFAM, and various models, including those from Victoria’s Secret, Rousteing helped Balmain become the first French label to pass the million-follower plateau on Instagram.
He designed the costumes for the opera, Renaissance – a 27-minute ballet with 22 dancers, which was choreographed by Sebastien Bertaud and opened at Opéra de Paris on June 13, 2017.
The 2021 Netflix documentary, Wonder Boy, written and directed by Anissa Bonnefont, examines his professional career and his search for his biological mother, whom he has yet to find.
Olivier Rousteing Age
He was born on September 13, 1985, in Bordeaux, France.
Olivier Rousteing Parents
He is the adoptive son of Bruno-Jean. Rousteing was adopted by his parents at the age of 1. His foster mother is an optician, while his father is a seaport manager. He was brought up in Bordeaux. Though he had previously believed he was of mixed race because of his skin colour, in 2019 he discovered that he is fully African, with a Somali birth mother and an Ethiopian birth father.
Olivier Rousteing Partner
He does not have a partner and has not openly talked about his personal relationships. However, he has openly identified as being gay.
Olivier Rousteing Accident
In October 2021, a year later, he has revealed he sustained serious injuries after a fireplace exploded at his home in Paris in 2020.
Writing on Instagram Saturday, October 9, 2021, the designer said he had been “hiding this for too long” but was “finally ready to share” his experience, adding the incident took place a year earlier on October 9, 2020.
“I did everything to hide this story from as many people as possible and trying to keep the secret with my teams and friends for too long,” Rousteing wrote. “To be honest I am not really sure why I was so ashamed, maybe this obsession with perfection that fashion is known for and my own insecurities…” he added.
Praising the staff at the Hôpital Saint Louis in Paris where he was treated, he said he had hidden his injuries with clothes and accessories during interviews and photoshoots.
Olivier Rousteing Nationality/ Ethnicity
Earlier on, he had believed he was of mixed-race because of his skin colour, in 2019 he discovered that he is fully African, with a Somali birth mother and an Ethiopian birth father.
Olivier Rousteing Instagram
He is active on his Instagram account @olivier_rousteing.
