Izet curi skopje
- Izet curi biografija
- Born on September 2, 1948 in Kosovo, he spent his childhood in Skopje, raised by his mother with his 8 brothers and sisters.
- Izet Curi est un modéliste, styliste et couturier établi à Paris, spécialisé dans le prêt-à-porter de luxe et ayant abordé la haute couture pour Jean Paul.
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Mr. Curi, your career in Paris is well known to the fashion connoisseurs. Can you walk us quickly through your early years?
At an early age, I lost my father, so my mother wanted us children to learn some trade, that would enable us to contribute to the family budget. At the age of 13, under her suggestion, I began to learn the tailoring craft. I had the opportunity to learn from great masters such as Strahil Jakimovski – Cale, Blagoja Angelkovski, Tome Malinovski, etc.
Armed with my knowledge, when I was 21, I decided to travel to Paris. I quickly realized that I had a good technical base, but also so many new things to learn. After the unpleasant situation with spending my money and turning for help to the embassy of Yugoslavia, my tailoring skills were put to a test. I was introduced to a tailor that worked for a certain company, who gave me a piece of clothing for sewing. I finished the coat, people from the company wanted to meet the person who was behind the sewing part. The company was Hermes. I was offered a job, that way my professional Parisian adventure has
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Izet Curi, a fashion designer who began his career as a tailor in Skopje, has reached the pinnacle of the industry, working with the most prestigious Parisian fashion houses.
Even as a child, he developed a love for fashion, but neither he nor anyone else could have predicted his rise to global fame. Growing up in a large family of nine children, he was encouraged by his widowed mother to learn a trade to ensure financial independence.
“My mother insisted we go to school and learn a trade to be financially independent,” the 76-year-old designer told Anadolu Agency.
Initially, he resisted the idea of becoming a tailor, as his peers teased him. However, as he began learning from his master, he realized his true calling.
At just 14, he started sewing shirts and pants for popular music bands in Skopje. With the support of his mentor, Tome Malinovski, they opened a shop in Skopje that became one of the most renowned boutiques in the city and beyond.
“We were famous throughout Yugoslavia, even people from Sarajevo were our customers. Goran Bregović and his ban
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AN INTERVIEW WITH IZET CURI
INDISPENSABILITY FOR INSPIRATION
Interviewer and translator from Macedonian and French (4%) into English: Igor Pop Trajkov
Photographer and sound recorder: Jacopo Landi
With Izet Curi we met in his institute in Skopje. He was surrounded with mannequins, unfinished and finished designs, drawings, students. He is in his natural element. His eyes reveal as they belong to somebody whose life was filled with a lot of work, but with inspiration as well, as a consequence of which they glow with happiness foremost.
IPT: You started with your career in the time when volunteering was not so popular here (in Macedonia) from where you originate. What was the difference between here and Paris regarding the issue of volunteering? The beginning of the career in the world of fashion is always more or less connected with volunteering.
IC: In the period when I decided to go to France I have already begun with this profession. I began learning my craft with the very good tailors here in Macedonia, as were Cale or Angelkovski. So when I went to
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