Josephus Thimister, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josephus Thimister

Belgian interior designer

Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1962

Place of Birth: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

Date of Death: 13-Nov-2019

Profession: fashion designer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Josephus Melchior Thimister (16 September 1962 – 13 November 2019) was a Dutch interior decorator and noted fashion designer who launched his eponymous fashion label, THIMISTER in 1997.
In 2001, the editor-in-chief of Vogue USA Anna Wintour named Josephus Thimister as one of the Twenty-First Century's best fashion designers.
In 2010, Cathy Horyn writing for the New York Times described his couture show and its pieces as, "fascinating (…) quite clear in military shapes and broken elegance.
Dresses like melted down family silver".
After a brief period with Karl Lagerfeld as an assistant, he worked as a designer at Jean Patou before being appointed director of luxury prêt-à-porter at the house of Balenciaga.
It was for the next five and a half years that Thimister would spend reviving the brand with his pure, succinctly modernist vision.
He then set up his own Paris-based house in 1997, and thereafter presented both haute couture and prêt-à-porter collections under his name.