André Courrèges (born in 1923 in Pau) is a French fashion designer, known for his ultra-modern designs. At the age of 25, after studying to be a civil engineer, he went to Paris to work at Geanne Lafaurie fashion design house. A few months later he went over to Balenciaga, the renowned Spanish designer. Both Courrèges and Briton,Mary Quant lay claim to the invention of the Minskirt. Courrèges, the lord of the miniskirt, gave women freedom of body and comfortable simplicity. He built his dresses rather than designed them. The shapes of his clothes are geometric: squares, trapezoids, triangles. In 1965, he launched a shocking campaign and revolutionalised the fashion world.