Marc Le Bihan

From 1982 to 1986, he was at the Manufacture des Gobelins in Paris, trained in the ancient art of tapestry, then worked than a tapestry until 1990.
1991: he founded his company : Lange et Linceul and made his first collection.
1992: his first catwalk.

1993: he was at the Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, in London and on his return in France, he received an Award at the « Festival international des arts de la mode » at Hyères.
1994: he received a bursary from the Andam. So he created his own label.
2003: he is invited by the Fédération française de la Couture for a catwalk in Tokyo.
2004: he is invited by the Fédération Française de la Couture for a catwalk in Beijing. He became a Member guest of the « Haute-Couture »
2007: first collaboration with Korda, FlashNmore, first collection: Fall/Winter 2008-09.

Marc Le Bihan is a fashion designer, an artist, a craftsman who creates clothes like a second skin.
Not heme, no collections changing season after season… it’s a work on progress .
His way is like a compulsive collect of clothes, looking for the good one, the only one. The one you can keep for all your life because you find the perfect image or the perfect essence for a jacket... or a shirt..
He paints, he boils, burns… All the material he uses are treated… with his hand… Never he uses them free of treatment.
He dyes all his fabrics: in black, red, ecru… grey… with pigments. He measures them to obtain the good shades, like a painter on his palette.
He boils them to obtain more soul, more strength…
He paints on his T-shirts a drawing, or some words… so, each garnment is unique or..prepare his own latex…. For his recycling collection: a lot of clothes are military uniforms from 40’s, 50’s, 60’s... and he morphs them to do a modern piece. Deconstruction, reconstruction… with a flexibility: there is not just one way to wear pieces, but a lot, as it’s better for each person… so, like a second skin.
With a swedish pants, he creates a coat, with a military pull, a gilet, with a smoking pants, a long skirt…. A baggy, a overalls, baggy… For one catwalk, he created pieces with Postal bags, which were made with heavy linen… Postal bags, because they transport letters life and in a certain way a part of people…
In an another part of his work, he uses old embroideries, old buttons... old fabrics... old laces... which he find at the flea market. He really likes to imagine a story… and give them an another life... or a continuity of a life… For example, the riding-coat..or dresses with strips of old laces... or just strips of laces become a long dress bustier… or shirt with shirt front, with old embroidery. With old slip in cotton, he morphs them in short dresses for the summer… For his part with latex: he paints latex and sometimes on a fabric, silk, tulle... with incrustation of laces, embroideries, pearls…
Some pieces are important and works every season en declinaison: Dancer dress like the dancer dress of Degas: Classic dress with silk, tulle Orin Stretch fabric, metal fabric... crepeline…
Or the Man Ray’s suit for man and woman…
So many possibilities for him... between the past, the present…