Fashion Interviews - The Talks

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Adam Selman

Adam Selman“You’re not tied to your clothes”

Agyness Deyn

Agyness Deyn“I’ve mellowed out”

Albert Watson

Albert Watson“You never get that day back”

Angela Missoni

Angela Missoni“You cannot live in the past”

Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein“I like the element of surprise”

Carol Lim & Humberto Leon

Carol Lim & Humberto Leon“It’s all work and all fun”

Christopher Kane

Christopher Kane“You can’t just put your head down”

Craig Green

Craig Green“Keep making that weird stuff”

David Bailey

David Bailey“How are you going to cross the road?”

Dean and Dan Caten

Dean and Dan Caten“We try it all on”

Dries Van Noten

Dries Van Noten“I want to show reality”

Erdem Moralioglu

Erdem Moralioglu“She’s so many different people”

Fabien Baron

Fabien Baron“We’ve just seen the beginning”

Federico Marchetti

Federico Marchetti“You cannot be a follower”

Frédéric Malle

Frédéric Malle“Something had to change”

Garance Doré

Garance Doré“I want to keep the distance”

Gareth Pugh

Gareth Pugh“I like that I feel out of place”

Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani“We all need to step up”

Haider Ackermann

Haider Ackermann“I used to be quite dark”

Hannelore Knuts

Hannelore Knuts“This was only the introduction”

Imran Amed

Imran Amed“There’s a new authenticity”

Iris Apfel

Iris Apfel“You can’t learn style”

Iris van Herpen

Iris van Herpen“I try to stretch the boundaries”

Jason Wu

Jason Wu“Taste is in the eye of the beholder”

Juergen Teller

Juergen Teller“You know when the work is good”

Kean Etro

Kean Etro“We are the outsiders”

Kris Van Assche

Kris Van Assche“You swim in order not to drown”

Maisie Schloss

Maisie Schloss“It’s so deeply my aesthetic”

Manolo Blahnik

Manolo Blahnik“You don’t have to show your status”

Margaret Howell

Margaret Howell“The clothes become a part of you”

Mario Sorrenti

Mario Sorrenti“There has to be intimacy”

Mary Katrantzou

Mary Katrantzou“It’s impossible not to doubt”

Natacha Ramsay-Levi

Natacha Ramsay-Levi“You have to push things further”

Nicholas Kirkwood

Nicholas Kirkwood“You have to know your craft”

Nick Knight

Nick Knight“I commit with my heart and soul”

Nicola Formichetti

Nicola Formichetti“There will be a backlash”

Norman Jean Roy

Norman Jean Roy“The camera used to carry this mystique”

Olivier Rousteing

Olivier Rousteing“You fight through the night”

Paloma Elsesser

Paloma Elsesser“I’m living less fearfully”

Paolo Roversi

Paolo Roversi“My life is full of pictures I didn’t take”

Paul Smith

Paul Smith“I’m happy to talk to anybody”

Peter Lindbergh

Peter Lindbergh“Beauty has nothing to do with youth”

Petra Collins

Petra Collins“I know what it’s like to be there”

Pierre Bergé

Pierre Bergé“Yves died at the right time”

Raf Simons

Raf Simons“The process never stops”

Renzo Rosso

Renzo Rosso“We have gained respect”

Rick Owens

Rick Owens“I never had that much to lose”

Robert Rabensteiner

Robert Rabensteiner“It’s all related to dreams”

Stefano Pilati

Stefano Pilati“I used to divide people”

Stuart Vevers

Stuart Vevers“I enjoy a big shift”

Tavi Gevinson

Tavi Gevinson“What is this exclusivity protecting?”

Thom Browne

Thom Browne“You need to have conviction”

Tom Ford

Tom Ford“I am really a loner after all”

Tomas Maier

Tomas Maier“It shouldn’t be about the product”

Umit Benan

Umit Benan“I was losing my identity”

Valentino

Valentino“I am somebody with taste, of course”

Viktor & Rolf

Viktor & Rolf“There's very little real glamour”

Willy Vanderperre

Willy Vanderperre“You have to constantly reinterpret”

Yohji Yamamoto

Yohji Yamamoto“People have started wasting fashion”