James Lebon, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British film and music video director
Date of Birth: 03-May-1959
Date of Death: 22-Dec-2008
Profession: film director
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About James Lebon
- James Lebon (3 May 1959 – 22 December 2008) was a British film and music video director who taught fashion photography at London College of Fashion.
- He first came to prominence in the 1980s as a hairdresser. His father was Philip Lebon, a famous plastic surgeon in West-End. Lebon went to the Michael Hall Steiner Waldorf School, and when he decided to become an accountant it was a surprise for everybody. In 1980 he set up his first hairdressing shop which called Cuts after his having finished the Vidal Sassoon’s academy in 1980.
- Lebon became getting known when he did vogue-style hairdressing for the boys and sexy model girls.
- As time passed Cuts turned to These Are Cuts and moved to Kensington Church Street, where David Bowie was one of his customer.
- The magazines the likes of The Face,i-D, Harpers & Queen mentioned Lebon in their articles.
- It is known that he made the session for Buffalofashion collective of the stylist Ray HPetri. He opened the Language Lab in London club, a sort of hiphop club where the rapping debut was made by a young Neneh Cherry. After a while he decided to concentrate on one career and enrolled at film school at New York University.
- There he made the videos for Bomb The Bass, D-Ream and Curiosity Killed the Cat.
- Lebon made his first short films with Ewan McGregor and Penélope Cruz who was the beginner at that time.
- It was in the USA when he met Shawn Stussy who was designing his skate clothing brand at the moment.
- It was Lebon who brought Stussy label to London.
- His last years Lebon worked as a graphic artist, in the main for Stussy, and he lectured on fashion photography and IT at the London School of Fashion.
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