Cathy Pill
Belgian fashion designer
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Cathy Pill is a Belgian[1] fashion designer,[2] formerly creator and director of Cathy Pill label,[citation needed] and presently co-founder and chief executive officer of MuseStyle.[3]
Pill started her career at A.F. Vandevorst and Vivienne Westwood.[4] The Cathy Pill label was invited to show during Paris Fashion Weeks for 7 years,[when?]. The brand was featured in more than 70 stockists (Galleries Lafayette, Browns, Harvey Nichols, Liberty, Stijl, Irina Kha[citation needed] and was worn by a number of celebrities (Lou Doillon,[citation needed] Beth Ditto,[5] Eva Green[citation needed]). Pill has worked as a consultant for Fashion houses NATAN[citation needed] and as a guest designer for French catalogue retailer La Redoute's[6] with Lou Doillon as her egerie.[citation needed]
Early life
Born in Antwerp in 1981,[citation needed] Cathy Pill graduated from the fashion school E.N.S.A.V. of La Cambre in Brussels.[2] She interned at brands such as A.F. Vandevorst[7] and Vivienne Westwood[7] before winning a numerous prizes.[7]
Career
Pill launched her first ready-to-wear collection, titled "Blink", during the Spring/Summer 06 Paris Fashion Week.[8] Exposed at Le Louvre, and marrying Art Nouveau influenced sinuous patterns extraordinarily with draped and bunched silhouettes, the collection immediately evoked interest and attracted the international press, under which The Herald Tribune, Le Monde, Vogue or Style.com.[9]
The following November, Pill was invited to present her collections during the Paris fashion weeks for 7 consecutive years.[citation needed] After only a few collections, Cathy Pill's label could be found in more than 15 countries and 70 stockists Colette, Galleries Lafayette, Browns, Liberty.[citation needed]
Pill worked as a consultant[citation needed] for other fashion houses (ex. NATAN,[citation needed] Claudia Strater.[1] In 2008 Pill was chosen by Canon Europe to design the famous CD-dress as well as for the We Speak Image collection alongside Matthew Williamson and Jean Charles de Castelbajac.[7]
During the Spring-Summer 2009 season, a line of printed leather bags was launched along with her collection, in collaboration with Kipling.[10] In 2011, La Redoute invited Pill as their Guest Designer for the spring-summer 2011 edition with Lou Doillon as her egerie.[11]
Founded by Cathy Pill,[3] Musestyle.com is a fashion visual curation platform[12] launched in December 2013.