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It’s official: Jeremy Scott, fashion’s camp connoisseur, has stepped down as Moschino’s creative director after a decade at the helm. Leaving one seriously kitsch legacy, the Missouri-born maverick stretched the limits of taste beyond repair, using the Italian house as a vessel to elevate and celebrate pop culture in all its tacky splendour. Not bad for a Midwestern gay boy that once saw his high noun halls as his own personal, if not bully-prone, catwalk.

Taking the reins in October from former creative director, Rossella Jardini, Jeremy was a fitting successor, honouring the house’s heritage of provocation and irony throughout his tenure. In fact, the farmboy-turned-runway-royal was offered several gigs elsewhere, but it was Moschino’s proposition that took his fancy. Given the late founder Franco Moschino’s bizarro designs, which spanned everything from tongue-and-cheek apes of Chanel suits to shopping bag dresses, it’s easy to see why Jeremy – whose namesake label rose to fame with banknote trench coats and bin-bag dresses – would accept.

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