Luxury footwear designer Jean-Michel Cazabat launches his new brand Cazabat.

After over 30 years in New York, working with renowned fashion houses and shaping his creative identity, the designer launched his eponymous brand in 2000. In recent years, he took time for experimentation, focusing on eco-design and craftsmanship, co-founding the vegan footwear brand Aera. Today, Jean-Michel Cazabat expresses his desire to reconnect with his origins by launching his brand from France, giving it a new identity that blends continuity and post-modernism, with a distinctly couture direction.

Jean-Michel Cazabat's collections focus on obsession with details and colors, choice of exceptional materials, sustainable craftsmanship, and a commitment to comfort. The new Cazabat collection unveils an array of approximately twenty enduring designs, each boasting elevated groundbreaking materials and construction techniques. For a delicate balance between tradition and modernity. The brand charts a new course in fashion by crafting boundary-pushing footwear that transcends temporal, seasonal, and geographical constraints. Eschewing the confines of traditional fashion calendars, Cazabat delivers a diverse range of products tailored to the needs of the contemporary wardrobe.

For its debut collection, the brand places materials at the heart of its creative process, giving particular attention to craftsmanship. Advocating for more local production, Cazabat also reveals its intention to develop, for each of its collections, capsules in collaboration with French artisans, thereby showcasing local craftsmanship. The first collaboration of this kind, realized in a Parisian workshop using ancient traditional looms, will offer a capsule of two models in a limited series of 15 numbered pieces, bringing to life a denim fur specially developed for the brand and reconstructed from old stocks of unraveled jeans, enriched with threads of gold and silver.

The inaugural Cazabat collection will be presented to the press on April 24 and 25, 2024 in Paris. The presentation of the collection to the European and international markets is scheduled between July and October 2024. It will be available for pre-order on the brand's e-commerce site and through a select group of high-end retail partners starting in July 2024, with delivery to the rest of the network beginning in October 2024.

Cazabat Press Day
April 24 - 25, 2024
194 Rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris

Press Contact: Sylvie Grumbach +33 (0) 6 85 07 94 34
sylvie.grumbach@2e-bureau.com

Brand contact: Daphné Rudler +33 (0) 6 16 43 00 86
daphne@cazabat.paris