Christian Gasc, costume designer of the multi-caesarean cinema, is dead

He had created costumes for cinema, opera and theatre.

Christian Gasc, French costume designer at the four Césars, died at the age of 76, AFP learned this Friday from his curator.

His body was discovered Tuesday evening at his Parisian home.

The designer has designed costumes for 50 films, winning three consecutive Césars in the 90s for

, an adaptation of

's opera by Frédéric Mitterrand,

, a film by Patrice Leconte set at the court of Versailles, and

, a cape and dagger film by Philippe de Broca.

cinema and opera

He received a fourth César for

à la reine in 2012, a historical drama around the character of Marie-Antoinette, with Diane Kruger, directed by Benoît Jacquot. It is with this director that he conceived his finest creations for opera: 

by Massenet in 2010 and

by Verdi in 2014, at the Paris Opera.

Lyrical stars raved about him when his death was announced.

“I liked Christian Gasc.

The man, the magnificent, the angel.

I loved his gaze which saw you more beautiful than you are, and which by a marvelous talent embellished you even more, ”tweeted the French baritone Ludovic Tézier.

The great soprano Angela Gheorghiu said she was deeply saddened by the death of the designer whom she described in a tweet as an "extraordinary and unparalleled talented" costume designer.

I liked Christian Gasc. The man, the magnificent, the angel. I liked his profession, his superbness and his discretion.

I liked his madness, his south-west. I adored his look which saw you more beautiful than you are, and which by a marvelous talent made you even more beautiful. Have a good rest, angel.

— Ludovic Tezier (@TezierLudovic) January 12, 2022

Collaborations with the greatest

Born in Dunes in Tarn-et-Garonne into a modest family, Christian Gasc was brought up by a mechanic father and a seamstress mother who gave him a taste for cinema from an early age.

At 19, he moved to Paris, where he met Liliane de Kermadec, who in 1975 offered him to work on the costumes for her film

, starring Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig.

From then on, he went on to collaborate with star directors (Jeanne Moreau for

, François Truffaut for

, Jean-Luc Godard for

) and other lesser-known ones.

He will be just as prolific in the theater, with around fifty collaborations, including Catherine Hiegel for her production of L'Avare de Molière at the Comédie-Française in 2009. In 2003, he received the Molière award for costume designer for

by Oscar Wilde, at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.

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