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"  NAME: Simon Porte AGE: 23 PROVENANCE: Salon-de-Provence, France CURRICULUM VITAE: After a mere two months attending ESMOD (Paris&amp;#039; \u00C9cole Sup\u00E9rieure des Arts et techniques de la Mode) in 2008, Porte dropped out to start his own line, a spur-of-the-moment decision. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t plan anything,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;Everything was very spontaneous and naive.&amp;quot; His mother had just passed away, so he dubbed the label Jacquemus\u2014her maiden name\u2014as a tribute to her. WATER BABY: Paris Fashion Week calls to mind larger-than-life venues such as the Grand Palais, so Porte&amp;#039;s fall show was quite a departure. Editors gamely sheathed their Nicholas Kirkwoods in plastic bags to step onto the deck of a public pool in the Bastille. &amp;quot;There are all these classic shows, these chic shows, and to see those people wearing plastic bags, it makes me smile,&amp;quot; recalls Porte, who sported pink swim trunks for his bow. But the designer&amp;#039;s updated French classics (mariner stripes, bon chic, bon genre shirting, and sportif suits)\u2014incongruously paired with drenched hair and Zuckerberg-esque shower slides\u2014certainly made the effort worth it. MUSE YOU CAN USE: Inspired by Isabelle Adjani&amp;#039;s 1984 music video for the song &amp;quot;Pull Marine,&amp;quot; which Porte saw as an impressionable 12-year-old, the collection channels what Porte calls &amp;quot;this very French, nonchalant girl, very bored by life. She&amp;#039;s 18 and already fed up.&amp;quot; He also counts another bewitching Gallic brunette as a touchstone: model and record impresario Caroline de Maigret, who starred in his spring 2012 campaign. JOKER&amp;#039;S WILD: Signature witty touches include an oversize tunic with the outline of a sexy red maillot, a completely transparent top worn with a midi skirt and a tied-at-the-waist sweatshirt, and a T-shirt that reads le pull marine. &amp;quot;In all my collections, I try to be ironic or funny. I don&amp;#039;t know if people understand it, or if the message is clear, but I always try,&amp;quot; the designer says. As for the risqu\u00E9 see-through elements? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t like the word sexy,&amp;quot; Porte says. The idea, he clarifies, was &amp;quot;not sexy, but more sexual. Sex mixed with rock &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; roll.&amp;quot; DON&amp;#039;T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB: Believe it or not, Porte still works as a sales associate at Comme des Gar\u00E7ons in Paris, a job that has its perks (beyond the employee discount): &amp;quot;I learn a lot, every day, about the customers, what they like and don&amp;#039;t like, what they want and don&amp;#039;t want.&amp;quot; Early mornings and late nights are spent in his studio, refining his designs. PRICES: From $270 for a top to $910 for a jacket STOCKISTS: Opening Ceremony and Maryam Nassir Zadeh in New York; Dover Street Market in London;\u2028Wood Wood in Berlin; The Broken \u2028Arm in Paris "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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