✽ Christian Tortu will try anything – as likely to combine fruit and vegetables in his bouquets as flowers and branches; producing monochrome arrangements; selling dried flowers (it is to him we owe the universal vogue for bouquets held together by stems of plants); designing things other than bouquets, vases for example, which is logical, but also table linen and bed linen, china, candles and small furniture; and finally, entering the very trendy world of fashion, luxury goods and advertising as a florist, where he quickly became absolutely essential.
Fashion shows with Dior, Chanel and Balmain, the Cannes Festival, there is not a smart event, trendy exhibition or trade show that does not call on his talents. He is the darling of fashion and lifestyle magazines, in which he is described as a floral artist, the “great couturier of the petal” or the Mozart of flowers. [By Monique Perrot-Lanaud, journalist]
