Benoit Meleard
Accessory design professor
Credentials
- Professor of accessory design, 2024-present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
- Designer, 2021-24, Les Eaux PR/Mord/Ales
- Founder and owner, 2020-24, GDB
- Creative director, 2020-22, Herbert Levine
- Art director, 2019, Tip-Toe
- Designer, 2017-18, Aganovich
- Creator, 2012-16, Studio Benoit Meleard
- Owner, 1997-2012, Benoit Meleard
- Accessories designer, 2010-11, Paco Rabanne
- Creative director, 2009-11, Charles Jourdan
- Writer and artistic consultant, 2007-09, Totem
- Teacher, 2006-07, ESMOD Paris
- Jury member, 2006, Atelier Chardon-Savard Paris
- Creative director, 2004-05, Rene Mancini
- Jury member, 2003, IFM Paris
- Designer, 2001-04, Atsuro Tayama
- Jury member, 2001, ESMOD Paris
- Footwear designer, 2001, Alexander McQueen
- Watch designer, 2000, Benoit Meleard X Swatch
- Footwear designer, 1999, Diesel Style Lab
- Eyewear designer, 1999, IC! Berlin
- Footwear designer, 1998-99, Loewe
- Footwear designer, 1997-98, Charles Jourdan
- Footwear designer, 1997, Jeremy Scott
- Footwear designer, 1994-97, Robert Clergerie
Awards, recognitions, and honors
- Best designer of the year of the City Hall of Paris, 2002
- ANDAM French Fashion Award from the Ministry of French Culture, 1998
- Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, 1997
Organizations
- Member, LGBTQIA+ Archives
Publications and presentations
Exhibitions
- Future Now, collective footwear exhibition, Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, 2022-23
- Footwear exhibition, Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, 2021
- Marche et demarche, fashion exhibition, MAD Louvre, Paris, 2019-20
- Isabella Blow, A Fashionable Life, Powerhouse Museum, MAAC, Sydney, 2016
- Foot Print, footwear exhibition, MOMU, Antwerp, 2015
- Savage Beauty, fashion exhibition Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2014
- Fashion Galore Isabella Blow, fashion exhibition, Somerset House, London, 2013
- Collective art exhibition, Conciergerie & Pompidou Center Museum, Paris, 2009
- Show Time, fashion exhibition, Barcelona, 2007
- Show Time, fashion exhibition, Galliera Museum, Paris, 2006
- Fashination, fashion and art exhibition, Bradford Museum, Bradford, 2005
- Fashination, fashion and art exhibition, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2004
- Chausses-croises, fashion exhibition, Rathaus Museum, Zurich, 2003
- Chausses-croises, fashion exhibition, Mudac Museum, Lausanne, 2002
- Extreme Beauty, fashion exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001
- Le cuir, fashion exhibition, Les Arts Decoratifs, Louvre, Paris, 2001
- Rejouissez-vous, art exhibition, CAC, Tarbes, 2001
- Benoit Meleard shoe show, Copyright collection, Paris, 2001
- Benoit Meleard shoe show, Copyright collection, New York, 2001
- Benoit Meleard shoe show, Mue collection, Center Pompidou Museum, Paris, 2000
- Mutant body, art and fashion exhibition, Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris, 2000
- Modes á suivre, fashion exhibition, Galliera Museum, Paris, 2000
- Carrefour de la creation, art exhibition, Center Pompidou Museum, Paris, 2000
- La Beauté en Avignon, art and fashion exhibition, Avignon, 2000
- Life Balls, shoe show Benoit Meleard for Life Balls AIDS Foundation, Vienna, 2000
- French shoes exhibition, Hyeres Festival, Hyeres, 2000
- Art & Mode, fashion and art exhibition and window, Christie's, Paris, 2000
- Fast Forward, fashion exhibition, Kiinstlerhaus, Vienna, 1999
- Benoit Meleard shoe show, 0 collection, Center Pompidou Museum, Paris, 1999
- Benoit Meleard shoe show, Tip-Toe collection, Paris, 1999
- Benoit Meleard shoe show, Cruel collection, Paris, 1998
- Coulisses de la mode, fashion exhibition, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1998