Madonna, Lady Gaga and the Pope's Dresser for HVG: For Me, Fashion Is Never the Priority, but the Desire to Communicate

“Fashion became my revolution,” recalls Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, a fashion designer and visual artist from an ancient aristocratic family. He designed the first vestments for a prison environment, the latest for the reopening of Notre-Dame. He worked with the Sex Pistols, Rihanna, the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the advertising photographer Oliviero Toscani – but he never gave up his own style at any cost. HVG portrait.