39 Facts About Jeremy Scott

Jeremy Scott was born on August 8,1975 and is an American fashion designer.

Jeremy Scott is the sole owner of his namesake label, and from October 2013 to March 2023 was the creative director of the fashion house Moschino.

Since launching his brand in Paris in 1997, Scott has built a reputation as "pop culture's most irreverent designer", and "fashion's last rebel".

Jeremy Scott grew up partly on a farm in Lowry City and partly in a suburb outside Kansas City.

Jeremy Scott discovered runway fashion in Details, looking up to Jean Paul Gaultier, Martin Margiela, Thierry Mugler, and Franco Moschino as role models.

In 1992, Jeremy Scott moved to New York to study fashion design at Pratt Institute, one of the city's Art and Design colleges, where he wore sci-fi-inspired clothes, "1880s vs 1980s" outfits, and shredded and decaying clothes.

Jeremy Scott did an internship in the New York offices of Aeffe, the company that owns Moschino.

Jeremy Scott's third collection, all in white, was a critical hit.

Jeremy Scott himself considers "the gold show" as the hardest moment of his career.

Karl Lagerfeld said that Jeremy Scott was the only person working in fashion who could take over Chanel after he left.

Jeremy Scott had cemented his reputation as a cult label with fervid fans, particularly in Asia, but he was still on the fringe of the fashion establishment, as he was considered neither "serious" nor "commercial".

Jeremy Scott closed one show in 2001 by throwing fake banknotes with his face printed on them into the audience.

In 2006, Jeremy Scott started his ongoing collaboration with the French leather-goods company Longchamp, which makes bags for front-row guests at his fashion shows.

Jeremy Scott's sneakers are considered "some of the most eye-catching sneakers ever seen", making "an indisputable imprint on the shoe landscape".

Jeremy Scott applied them to other objects for other clients, including Smart cars and baby prams.

Jeremy Scott collaborated with Swatch in 2011, creating three watch designs that were hailed as the return of Swatch to its "uber-fun Eighties roots" with Scott's "pop aesthetic, fun twist and overstated form".

Jeremy Scott starred in the Adidas 2012 print and video campaign with Nicki Minaj, Sky Ferreira and 2NE1.

In June 2012, Adidas decided that a pair of sneakers designed by Jeremy Scott called the JS Roundhouse Mids would not be sold after the shoes were criticised for their bright yellow handcuffs which, as some believed, were "shackles" alluding to slavery.

Jeremy Scott denied that the shoes had anything to do with slavery, stating it was a reference to the children's toy My Pet Monster.

Jeremy Scott made a show-closing homage to Lisa Frank with a vacuum-formed plexiglass bustier encrusted in hundreds of Frank stickers.

In February 2013, Jeremy Scott plagiarized designs from Santa Cruz Skateboards.

Santa Cruz and Jeremy Scott reached a settlement whereby Jeremy Scott ceased production of his collection.

Jeremy Scott debuted his first fragrance for Adidas on February 1,2015, in a glass replica of his Adidas winged sneakers.

Jeremy Scott re-told the fashion gags of Franco Moschino through the eyes of an American.

Jeremy Scott created a TV commercial for the Moschino Barbie doll, which he wrote and art-directed, based on toy commercials of the eighties and nineties.

Jeremy Scott has been credited with reviving the Moschino brand, boosting its sales and turning it into a fan favorite.

An important part of Jeremy Scott's work has been outfitting show business celebrities such as Beyonce, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Nicki Minaj.

In January 2015, Jeremy Scott created the costumes for the Super Bowl XLIX Half Time show performance of pop star Katy Perry.

Jeremy Scott dressed The Muppets' Miss Piggy for a photoshoot with Kermit the Frog as Andy Warhol.

Jeremy Scott has dressed Piggy on more than one occasion, including her front row appearance at his fashion show and for The Muppets world premiere.

The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined, a British exhibition themed around different concepts of vulgarity, included Jeremy Scott's sweet wrapper-themed dresses alongside Warhol's Souper Dress in the pop art-centric "Too Popular" section.

Jeremy Scott: The People's Designer is a 2015 documentary film directed by Vlad Yudin detailing the life of Scott and his rise in the fashion industry.

Jeremy Scott won the ANDAM Fashion Award in 2000 and the Womenswear Designer of the Year award at the Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards in 2015.

Jeremy Scott won the Venus de la Mode award for best new designer in 1998 and 1999 for his second and third collections and was nominated for Best Young Designer of 1999 by the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

Jeremy Scott was the featured Guest Designer at the 88th Pitti Uomo, Florence's premier bi-annual menswear tradeshow.

Jeremy Scott has agreed to hold a retrospective of his fashions at the Dallas Contemporary museum in 2017, on the 20th anniversary of his debut.

Jeremy Scott's parents are Jim, an engineer, and Sandy, a teacher.

Jeremy Scott has two older siblings, Barbara, a lawyer, and James.

Jeremy Scott owns two houses designed by John Lautner: the Foster-Carling House in the Hollywood Hills and the Elrod House in Palm Springs.