outrageously divine: Catherine Baba

Catherine Baba is an Australian aesthete/stylist/jewellery designer/fashion designer/muse living the dream in Paris. She has been called the most stylish woman in Paris by Diane Pernet.Working within the idiom of fashion where everything is shorter, tighter and newer Baba cultivates an aura of mystery around herself. She looks like a cross between a weimer Berlin cabaret performer and a Studio54 regular. She doesn't give many interviews. She does not reveal her age and insists she was never young. She is not forthcoming with any personal details of her life preferring to let her work and her clothes speak for themselves. She has a penchant for both vintage fur and vintage YSL couture and owns over 350 pieces. She is rarely seen without a turban or long fringed earrings. She rides her bicycle everywhere and is a regular sight at Paris fashion week precariously weaving her way through traffic in 5 inch heels. Baba has worked for Givenchy, Chanel, Ungaro and Balmain, styled for Vanity Fair, Dazed and Confused and French Vogue. She designed the costumes for Eva Inesco's autobiographical film "My Little Princess". Ms Baba said of the experience, ‘fashion and film are two completely different vehicles in aestheticism; I close no doors.’ Baba is a regular scourer of the Porte de Cligancourt markets where she shops for baroque maximalist pieces often from the belle epoque to 1920's and 1930's style Hollywood glamour.As Catherine says "Being divine is work!"

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