(21 Nov 2024)
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Paris - 20 November, 2024
1. Close-up of fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac in his studio showing the Bishops' vestment he designed for them to wear for the services of Notre Dame cathedral opening, UPSOUND (English) “This is for the bishops.”
2. Close-up of vestment, UPSOUND (English/French) Jean-Charles de Castelbajac showing Bishops' vestment to journalists: “For me, colour is a temper too. Color is a “caractère” (personality in French). Color is an emotion. And color is a language.”
3. Close-up of cross-shaped pattern on fabric.
4. Close-up of tag being shown by de Castelbajac, reads (French) “Jean-Charles de Castelbajac for Notre-Dame de Paris”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, fashion designer:
“When I heard Notre Dame was burning, we went. We walked quite a long time until we arrived on the bank in front of Notre Dame, on the right bank. There, it was shocking. It was like a war scene. And we see people on knee, praying, singing cantics, you know, and in front, it was Apocalypto, it was apocalypse. It was… not just Notre Dame was burning, it was like if hope was burning.”
6. Mid of Castelbajac showing the drawings he made imagining its reconstruction, after witnessing Notre Dame fire back in 2019 - one drawing with an angel atop Notre Dame, another with a roof of stained glass with the image of a rainbow or an angel
7. Pan close-up of sketches drawn by Castelbajac of Notre Dame’s roof designs
8. Mid of Castelbajac, UPSOUND (English) Jean-Charles de Castelbajac: “I want to do a huge stained glass on the roof.”
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, fashion designer:
“(Explaining his reaction after seeing Notre Dame cathedral burn) And in my mind already, but this is my artistic process, I was thinking: ‘What can I do?’ And I don’t find any answer. So when I come home later, I go out on this place, I sit at my table and I start to draw an angel inside Notre Dame. And I start to draw a new roof for Notre Dame looking like stained glasses. So it was really a very shocking and powerful moment into my life.”
10. Various of Portfolio book on which "Notre Dame" is written
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, fashion designer:
“I come to fashion because of history. When you see a garment that Joan of Arc has been wearing, it’s so mysteriously emotional. And so, the vestment is material. So, it’s moving. It’s accompanying the body of the celebrant; it’s accompanying his gestures. So it’s a very intimate relation with spirituality, with praying and with the world of tomorrow. It’s a message.”
12. Mid of Castelbajac showing a sketch of a liturgical vestment to journalists
13. Close-up a sketch of a liturgical vestment showing underneath a piece of golden fabric
14. Close-up a sketch of a liturgical vestment showing underneath a piece of golden fabric with the designer’s signature
STORYLINE:
When Jean-Charles de Castelbajac watched as Paris' Notre Dame cathedral burned in April 2019, he felt compelled to act somehow.
Returning home, the French fashion designer began sketching ideas, imagining the monument’s reconstruction.
“I sit at my table and I start to draw an angel inside Notre Dame," Castelbajac said.
"And I start to draw a new roof for Notre Dame looking like stained glasses. So it was really a very shocking and powerful moment into my life," he added.
This duty, as he calls it, led to a collection of work crafted in collaboration with the esteemed artisans of 19M studio.
“I come to fashion because of history," he said.
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