André Courrèges 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 and later also at Balenciaga. He launched the famous 'Space Age' collection with his label in 1964. The shapes of his clothes were geometric: squares, trapezoids, circles and triangles. The main features of his boxy, uncluttered look spread quickly throughout the fashion world, especially the miniskirt, which he introduced to France. [Both designers actually, Courrèges and the British Mary Quant, lay claim until today to the invention of the miniskirt.]