Christa de Carouge

Christa de Carouge (born Christa Furrer, 1936-2018) was a Swiss fashion designer.

Biography Christa Furrer was born in 1936 in Basel, Switzerland. Her grandparents both worked in a silk ribbons factory. Her father was a cook, and her mother was a seamstress and taught her to sew. Christa Furrer was the oldest of five siblings. Her brother Urs became an artist.

She started working in a clothing store (Monsieur Rudi) in Geneva owned by her husband. After her divorce, in 1978, she created a couture shop in Carouge and endorsed the name Christa de Carouge. She then moved to Zürich where she continued to design clothes. She preferred not to use her last name "Furrer" because it sounded exactly like the connotative word "führer".

She died on 17 January 2018. (including Le Corbusier's approach to modern home design ).

In 2003, she temporarily introduced red and yellow in her collections. Kunsthaus de Zug, November-December 2017