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I started of course, a while ago.
In fact I was really attracted by clothes.
In the first place, and mainly by clothes that can
change your appearance.
I think to me it's a challenge to rethink beauty all
the time and for me it's very important despite
the fact that i'm working sometimes with very
extreme types of beauty to try to recreate
a kind of balance and a kind of aesthetic, it's
very important.
And it's not only about experimenting and changing
it's also about trying to re-think and create a new
aesthetics.
I called the exhibition "Dream the world awake",
and that a little but of vision I have on fashion.
At one side I want to let people dream and create dreams
but I also want them to think about out society,
about our world, about our person, about everything in fact
and they are the things I wanted to bring together.
That's also how I am working in my collection,
at once side I am somebody who wants to dream
and fly away, in fact but on the other side I am also
very down to earth and I want to create or try to
create our contemporary world and it's a very important part
to be also critical and to react on what's going
on in the world.
The reason why I choose to work in mens fashion, in fact,
because I do make also women's looks and silhouettes in
the collections, but I always choose to present my
collection in the mens fashion week in paris because I think
it is one way more interesting to push their boundaries
because it is more difficult to keep the balance right.
That makes it for me very interesting because at one
side I want to push it forward, but on the other side I want
to keep it perfectly in balance - at least according to me.
I know that even for other people sometimes they don't get it
or it's out of bounds or it's extreme and controversial, but
I mean for me, at the end it should be perfectly in balance.
That's again, I am very critical of that for myself.
I don't want to just create to be controversial, I really
want to create a thing because I believe in it and I
think that it could eventually change fashion, probably for the future.
I am trying to push forward these boundaries.
Yeah, it was a huge job to choose all the pieces for
the exhibition because one way or another from the
beginning I kept all my pieces, so I have a huge archive.
Which is sometimes very difficult to handle because it's
stocked everywhere in all different places and boxes
so when the questions came to make this retrospective
the first thing I was doing was to make an overview
of everything I have. Then I stated to recreate the
original look, how the were presented, in the original collections.
When I saw it all coming together it looked like one
big collection.
Because it was created over 30 years, but if you see
them all next to each other and nothing is chronological,
it's just that everything is mixed up. I was really
very proud that it's all recognisable and that my signature
and way of thinking is so visible in this exhibition.
It's not only seeing the clothes, I think that's one part
of the exhibition and enjoying the exhibition but for
me it was also very important to show my way of working.
That's why we created a big "Wonder Wall", we called it
where it's based on my scrap books, I'm making scrapbooks
which are putting together all images that i'm
really fascinated by and inspired by, but also words
and even slogans and sayings. That I wanted to have
also in the exhibition.
And on top of this Wonder Wall, we are presenting
ethnical objects.
Also objects from artists I am inspired by, there will
be videos of certain artists that I'm inspired by, but also
toys are on the wall. It's mixture of everything I get
my inspiration from.