{{Short description|French costumer (1945–2022)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Christian Gasc | image = Christian Gasc Césars 2013.jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Gasc in 2013 | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{birth date|1945|08|08|df=yes}} | birth_place = Dunes, France | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|01|11|1945|08|08|df=yes}} | death_place = Paris, France | other_names = | occupation = Costumer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Christian Gasc''' (8 August 1945 – 11 January 2022) was a French costumer for film, theatre, and opera.<ref>{{cite news |last=Decalf|first=Guillaume|date=13 January 2022|title=Mort de Christian Gasc, grand costumier lyrique|trans-title= |url=https://www.francemusique.fr/opera/mort-de-christian-gasc-grand-costumier-lyrique|language=French|work=France Musique|location= |access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref> He was a four-time winner of the César Award for Best Costume Design, one-time winner of the {{ill|Molière du créateur de costumes|fr}}, and was once nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Costume Design.
==Biography== Gasc was born in Dunes on 8 August 1945 to a mechanic father and wife a seamstress mother. He discovered cinema in Valence at the age of eight and moved to Paris at nineteen. There, he met Liliane de Kermadec who proposed that he create costumes for her film, ''Aloïse''. He won three consecutive César Awards for the films ''Madame Butterfly'', ''Ridicule'', and ''On Guard''.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=24 February 2013|title=Valence. Le quatrième César de Christian Gasc|trans-title= |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2013/02/24/1568510-valence-le-quatrieme-cesar-de-christian-gasc.html|language=French|work=La Dépêche du Midi|location=Valence|access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref> He was close with several directors who helped his career greatly, such as Pierre Klossowski, Benoît Jacquot, and {{ill|Pierre Romans|fr}}, as well as screenwriters such as Roland Barthes, Marguerite Duras, and Hervé Guibert.
In 2015, an exhibition on his costumes for the film ''Farewell, My Queen'' was displayed at the {{ill|Musée de la dentelle de Caudry|fr}}.<ref>{{cite news |last=Jeammet|first=Corinne|date=20 July 2015|title=Dentelle et 7e art, la passion du costume avec Christian Gasc à Caudry|trans-title= |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/mode/dentelle-et-7e-art-la-passion-du-costume-avec-christian-gasc-a-caudry_3320783.html|language=French|work=France Info|location= |access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>
Gasc was found dead in his Parisian apartment on 10 January 2022 at the age of 76.<ref>[https://static.data.gouv.fr/resources/fichier-des-personnes-decedees/20220210-111900/deces-2022-m01.txt Deces 2022] data.gouv.fr</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Pyrda|first=Pierre-Jean|date=13 January 2022|title=Tarn-et-Garonne. Originaire de Valence-d'Agen, le grand costumier de cinéma Christian Gasc est décédé|trans-title= |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2022/01/13/tarn-et-garonne-originaire-de-valence-dagen-le-grand-costumier-de-cinema-christian-gasc-est-decede-10043567.php|language=fr|work=La Dépêche du Midi|location=Valence|access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>
==Filmography== ===Cinema=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *''Aloïse'' (1975) *''French Provincial'' (1975) *''Lumière'' (1976) *''Surreal Estate'' (1976) *''Barocco'' (1976) *''{{ill|Les Apprentis Sorciers|fr}}'' (1977) *''Les Rendez-vous d'Anna'' (1977) *''The Green Room'' (1978) *''{{ill|Roberte (film)|fr|Roberte}}'' (1979) *''Return to the Beloved'' (1979) *''The Brontë Sisters'' (1979) *''Courage fuyons'' (1979) *''Loulou'' (1980) *''The Wings of the Dove'' (1981) *''Hotel America'' (1981) *''{{ill|The Big Pardon|fr|Le Grand Pardon}}'' (1982) *''Passion'' (1982) *''Cap Canaille'' (1983) *''The Children'' (1984) *''Rendez-vous'' (1985) *''Scene of the Crime'' (1986) *''{{ill|Havre (film)|fr|lt=Havre}}'' (1986) *''Les Innocents'' (1987) *''Chocolat'' (1988) *''Walking a Tightrope'' (1991) *''Madame Butterfly'' (1995) *''Ridicule'' (1996) *''My Man'' (1996) *''On Guard'' (1997) *''Augustin, King of Kung-Fu'' (1999) *''The Widow of Saint-Pierre'' (2000) *''Sade'' (2000) *''Tosca'' (2001) *''Strayed'' (2003) *''Les Côtelettes'' (2003) *''Changing Times'' (2004) *''The Black Box'' (2005) *''The Women on the 6th Floor'' (2010) *''Farewell, My Queen'' (2012) *''Madame Bovary'' (2014) *''Being 17'' (2016) {{div col end}}
===Television=== *''The Counterfeiters'' (2010)
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