- Take inspiration from Music and Poetry. Always listen to music and always read poetry - Poetry comes from the soul. You cannot buy poetry. Music reflects the rhythm of the heart.
- You should try remove walls between different things in the world.
- Live in creativity. Immerse yourself.
- Change everything for your own ideas. Be original
- "I am always split half/half between the past and the future. My father always liked the old fashion way and my mother was always looking to the future and to women's rights."
- Started off designing clothing for "fonction" (function: army, work, ect.)
- In history, the fashion and clothing reflected the people of the times
- Clothes always bring back the past
- There is no creativity without emotion
- To create there has to be a STORY
- Find creativity from yourself and tell your own stories
- Beauty or perfection is not creativity - "I don't like beauty or perfection."
- Weirdness/bizarenes/imperfection/accidents are creativity
- I made a jacket from the same material that my mother used to wash the floor and then I put silk inside of this tough material
- Use the cross to shape my clothing (shape of arms and legs)
- "You can never understand English people. I always wanted to be English."
- ACCIDENT - People are touched or impacted by something when they don't understand it. It makes people question
- Creativity is Accident - Creativity is not perfection
- You need to be courageous
- There is no randomness. You need to go for the randomness.
- Used animals as inspired - reincarnation
- "Over time, I faced a revolution. I had to change to keep up with the times and trends"
- Vivienne Westwood made shirts with chicken bones on them. She'd go to KFC buy cheap chicken, dry the bones and use them as art.
- Malcolm Mclaren was also a big inspiration - he created one of the sex pistol's covers
- "I am not alone. I want to work with other artists."
- Raymon Loewy was a huge inspiration. He created the shell logo, coca cola, exxon, bp logos and the moon rocket. He was an inspiration of Andy Warhol
- A fan of creativity
- It's important to take time to go and see art and MEET the people who create things. Become their fan.
- You have to be curious
- Asked to design the clothing for one of the charlie's angels in a magazine spread - empowerment for women. Sports clothes
- At one point, he used a sweater like a t-shirt (getting images and putting them onto sweater: e.g. snoopi, mickey, etc.)
- Trends and the times were heading into black and white whereas his fashion stayed in colour. It was difficult to keep up.
- Another inspiration was Kraftwerk
- "Hip-hop saved my life." - Jay-z helped promote his designs
- He did a line as a homage to pop-culture ( malcolm mclaren)
- Cartoons are important images because they are like ghosts. and empty frame for people to see themselves in. - Hello kitty is a total empty shell and that is why people love hello kitty so much. People can fit their personalities into these cartoon characters.
- Always thinking about how he could modernise old things e.g. modernise an old pair of shoes (colour them)
- You can take anything classic and change it and make it your own.
- "I would like you to be a gardener of friendship" - friendships are very important - Keith harring was a good friend to him. Before he died, his last artwork was dedicated to Castelbajac
- 2nd revolution - Teddy bears: we started to become a society of consuming. He used teddy bears to create fur coats
- It's important to realise that what makes you famous is not what sells
- What do you want to be your traces in the world? What do you want to be remembered by?
- If you just want to sell, you will not be leaving traces and will not be remembered in this world.
- Rainbow - link between God and the people
24 august 1992
After this date, I realised that I was just designing for egoiste (selfish) people but I realised I can use my fashion for something more important.
- Inspirations: UK flag, snoopi, check pattern, oversized jacket, skull'bone, robin hood, rock n roll
- Use lego as a material to create first creations
- The Obama dress was the only creation he received negative and threatening letters (most were from texas funnily enough)
- If we speak of someone who isn't around anymore, they are still alive because someone is speaking of them.
- First outfit in a runway show is what makes an impact
- opening, middle, finale - the show has to tell a STORY
- Creation without a concept is nothing
- created for daft punk, MIA, Gaga (telephone video and kermit jacket), Beyonce (telephone video)
- "I love creating for music"
- He is also an artist- Crystalise - to make the beauty of something stand out. Paris is so beautiful that you don't see the beauty (e.g. you miss the beauty in individual things). He placed neon lights around a statue in paris to frame it and to make people see the beauty
- To SEE is different from to look
- Decorate student buildings with art because the buildings are always building. It's important for young people to be surrounded by art.
- I spend my life filling sketch books with art
- Everyone has problem and difficulties in life. Drawing was his therapy. His obsession.
- The more you draw the better you get (PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE)
- Therapy and creation
- He draws on the walls in cities he visits with chalk. He always has chalk with him everywhere he goes.
- He sometimes thinks "why am I not connected?" - You need to force yourself to understand WHY?
- There is no frontier between art and fashion
- AUTHENTICITY VS KARAOKE (COPYING)
- "Everyone is shopping (for ideas) on the internet instead of in the brain"
- Always keep authenticity
- Now is the perfect moment to be an artist/designer/etc.
- If you are an artist you have an insight into society and the MOVEMENT OF SOCIETY
- Fashion - tool for democracy. It has a social role
- Constantly inspired by charismatic people (eg: obama, michael jackson, etc.)
- Capture: "The weather of the soul of the age that we live in."
"Your duty if to do what you want to do and not what others want you to do."
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