Laurent Dombrowicz is born in Belgium on the 6th of January, 1966

Graduated from INSAS (University for Theater and Film Industry, Brussels) as film director in 1987, he has started his career in fashion at the age of 23 as Fashion Director of the main weekly frenchspeaking belgian magazine Weekend L'Express

Between 1989 and 1997, Laurent Dombrowicz has worked, as stylist, for several publications in Europe, such as Euroman, Squeeze, Attitude and the iconic french kingsized Jardin Des Modes.

He focused his work on the tension between art and fashion, using on a regular basis his knowledge of the Film History.

Discovering and highlighting new talents becomes soon his first priority. Laurent Dombrowicz has co-founded in 1997 and managed the company of Olivier Theyskens, his former assistant. In the very late 90s, he starts a 6 years work relationship with the belgian menswear designer Xavier Delcour. More recently, he has worked as consultant for the catalan and flamboyant José Castro and the persian-german menswear designer Boris Bidjan Saberi and, since two years with the successful wonderkid from India, Manish Arora. His next challenge is the young and brillant talent Yiqing Yin's first show in Paris.

Laurent Dombrowicz is also a writer. His texts have been published in three continents and his main contribution to CITIZEN K INTERNATIONAL has featured interviews of the most influential or important fashion designers of the last two decades. His position as Fashion Editor at Large is due to a long and great relationship with the one-of-his-kind founder Kappauf.

After a two-years adventure with the british quaterly magazine WOUND, and as contributing fashion editor for Vogue Korea, TETU and a couple of other magazines around the world.

He likes to switch from famous photographers such as Jean Baptiste Mondino, Tyen, Sarah Moon or Ruven Afanador to emerging talents or totally unknown ones. His favourites are Paolo Zambaldi, the duet René & Radka, Justin Cooper and the young Rémi Lamandé, discovered at the age of 19 by Laurent.

His work with womenswear is the total opposite of the famous but so oldfashioned "less is more" ethos, as Laurent is a sophistication-addict and refuses the laziness of the snap short esthetics. From Lanvin to Rick Owens, from Alexander McQueen to Viktor & Rolf, he puts the fashion in a cultural environnement that translates both his taste and a very high level of exigence.

His work with menswear has another kind of energy, exploring the boundaries of excess and eroticism, with an edgy sense for casting. With the years, jewellery and beauty shots are also some of his favourite play grounds.

His global view on fashion has driven Laurent Dombrowicz' career to other territories. In 2007, he his appointed by the catalan government to be art director of a refreshed edition of 080 Barcelona Fashion Week. As a highlight of this event, Laurent Dombrowicz organizes a spectacular retrospective of Thierry Mugler, his favourite designer ever, at the breathtaking spot of the Olympic Swimming Pool Montjuic. A 45 minuts show with more than 100 models and a audience of 3000 people. In 2008, he is commissioned by the respectable Fédération Française du Pret-à-Porter and his President Mr Dider Grumbach to imagine an usual scenography to welcome the creations of french designers in the Shanghai Fashion Fair.

Since 2006, Laurent Dombrowicz is apppointed by the luxury division of L'Oreal Group to present and develop analysis of the style trends, in order to explain, explore or establish new links between Arts, fashion and the cosmetics industry. Delighting the past, feeling the present to imagine the future, that's his work, his passion.

Biographic elements by Azalée Palmer