Fashion Interviews - The Talks

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Haider Ackermann

Haider Ackermann“I used to be quite dark”

Imran Amed

Imran Amed“There’s a new authenticity”

Dean and Dan Caten

Dean and Dan Caten“We try it all on”

Iris Apfel

Iris Apfel“You can’t learn style”

Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani“We all need to step up”

David Bailey

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

Fabien Baron

Fabien Baron“We’ve just seen the beginning”

Umit Benan

Umit Benan“I was losing my identity”

Pierre Bergé

Pierre Bergé“Yves died at the right time”

Manolo Blahnik

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

Thom Browne

Thom Browne“You need to have conviction”

Petra Collins

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

Agyness Deyn

Agyness Deyn“I’ve mellowed out”

Garance Doré

Garance Doré“I want to keep the distance”

Paloma Elsesser

Paloma Elsesser“I’m living less fearfully”

Kean Etro

Kean Etro“We are the outsiders”

Tom Ford

Tom Ford“I am really a loner after all”

Nicola Formichetti

Nicola Formichetti“There will be a backlash”

Tavi Gevinson

Tavi Gevinson“What is this exclusivity protecting?”

Craig Green

Craig Green“Keep making that weird stuff”

Viktor & Rolf

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

Margaret Howell

Margaret Howell“The clothes become a part of you”

Christopher Kane

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

Mary Katrantzou

Mary Katrantzou“It’s impossible not to doubt”

Nicholas Kirkwood

Nicholas Kirkwood“You have to know your craft”

Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein“I like the element of surprise”

Nick Knight

Nick Knight“I commit with my heart and soul”

Hannelore Knuts

Hannelore Knuts“This was only the introduction”

Carol Lim & Humberto Leon

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

Peter Lindbergh

Peter Lindbergh“Beauty has nothing to do with youth”

Tomas Maier

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

Frédéric Malle

Frédéric Malle“Something had to change”

Federico Marchetti

Federico Marchetti“You cannot be a follower”

Angela Missoni

Angela Missoni“You cannot live in the past”

Erdem Moralioglu

Erdem Moralioglu“She’s so many different people”

Rick Owens

Rick Owens“I never had that much to lose”

Stefano Pilati

Stefano Pilati“I used to divide people”

Gareth Pugh

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

Robert Rabensteiner

Robert Rabensteiner“It’s all related to dreams”

Natacha Ramsay-Levi

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

Renzo Rosso

Renzo Rosso“We have gained respect”

Olivier Rousteing

Olivier Rousteing“You fight through the night”

Paolo Roversi

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

Norman Jean Roy

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

Maisie Schloss

Maisie Schloss“It’s so deeply my aesthetic”

Adam Selman

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

Raf Simons

Raf Simons“The process never stops”

Paul Smith

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

Mario Sorrenti

Mario Sorrenti“There has to be intimacy”

Juergen Teller

Juergen Teller“You know when the work is good”

Valentino

Valentino“I am somebody with taste, of course”

Kris Van Assche

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

Dries Van Noten

Dries Van Noten“I want to show reality”

Iris van Herpen

Iris van Herpen“I try to stretch the boundaries”

Willy Vanderperre

Willy Vanderperre“You have to constantly reinterpret”

Stuart Vevers

Stuart Vevers“I enjoy a big shift”

Albert Watson

Albert Watson“You never get that day back”

Jason Wu

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

Yohji Yamamoto

Yohji Yamamoto“People have started wasting fashion”