As a sort of addendum to my post on Pierre Jancou's splendid new cave-à-manger from earlier this week, I thought I'd share a lesser-known aspect of Jancou's admirable career.
During our first conversation, a little over a year ago, I happened to mention that I work for a fashion company. Jancou was familiar with the brand - because he'd modeled in one of the same company's runway shows a few years back.
I remember finding it all a marvelous coincidence. Then, perhaps distracted by the wine that evening, I forgot all about it. But just the other day it finally occurred to me to look around for the images, and, voilà.
He certainly makes for a refreshing change from the usual sour-faced, cat-torturer look of many younger male models. For it's worth highlighting that this is the men's autumn winter 2000 show, which would have taken place around January of same year - when Jancou would have been easily ten years' older than most male runway models. (At least by present day standards. I'll confess to knowing nothing about industry norms twelve years ago, or if they've changed at all.) Theoretically this would have occurred between his time running La Bocca and his founding La Crémerie.
In any event, it's nice to know I'm not the only one who ever attempted to reconcile seemingly contradictory interests in fashion and natural wine. The former industry is too often totally unconcerned with non-visual aesthetics, let alone production ethics, while the latter industry, being agricultural at base, can be almost pugnaciously provincial, reflexively leery of anything sophisticated or cosmopolitan. I suspect both fields would probably benefit from more polyvalence; but for evidence I can only cite the beauty of Jancou's restaurants.
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That is fantastic!
ReplyDeleteJoel Robuchon modeled for Chloé a while back. He's not into the whole natural wine thing though.
ReplyDeletePierre lost a bet ?
ReplyDeleteGreat post. I agree, this is in fact a happier looking model than the usual sour faced ones.
ReplyDeletePierre Jancou is such a pompous ass, little surprise that he would be preening about a cat walk with his arrogant, smug mien. At least this was something suited to his complete and total lack of people skills.
ReplyDeletehi anonymous ! in my experience jancou's hospitality is among the best in paris. if you aim to convince us otherwise, it would be more helpful to relate what occurred, rather than cheaply relating it to the fashion industry. the latter impulse is precisely what i lament in the closing paragraph of this post.
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