With less than a week before the Haute Couture collections
open for Spring 2014, it seems fitting to introduce you to my latest subject ... Alexandre Vauthier. The man is a gentleman of distinction in the
worlds of fashion as he prepares his eponymous collections for both the couture
and ready to wear.
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| Portrait by Marc-Antoine Coulon |
It has been said that that the rules can only be broken by
those who have mastered them and Monsieur Vauthier is an “A” student. His distinctive resume include 2 extended
terms of employment that shaped his career and taught him the rules of
the “game” … first at Mugler, (when there was a Thierry present) and then at
Jean Paul Gaultier in the Haute Couture aspect of that brand. What more needs
to be said than he was taught by the best of the best.
The collections rendered under his name are exercises in the
mastery of cutting and draping and the disciplines and rigors of fine precision
tailoring and construction. The clothes are not for the faint of heart nor are
they ever considered boring or run of the mill. These clothes are audacious,
bold, overtly sexy and never require any of the blah blah blah that seems to
accompany so many collections these days.
In other words, the end the clothes speak for themselves and
to his clientele. Today Alexandre Vauthier speaks for himself to us... Please
enjoy this and please don’t forget to look for the collection that will be
debut on January 21, 2014. (http://alexandrevauthier.com/ )
A big MERCI beaucoup from moi to him!!
1-What is the most treasured
possession in your wardrobe?
My Fruit of the Loom t-shirts and
Nike sneakers
2-What is your most sterling trait
and what trait do you treasure most in your friendships?
Determination and loyalty
3-What is your bliss?
Sleeping
4-What is your guilty secret?
Not being to sleep
5-Where is your ideal home?
Along the California coast, on El
Matador beach
6-If you could not be a
designer/retailer/etc:, what would you be
Lawyer or Surgeon
7-What is on your bedside table right
now?
My alarm and a bottle of water
8-What do you wear to bed?
Nothing
9-What, if any, book are you reading
now or last read?
La Vie Adulte, Virginie Mouznat (
Grown up Life)
10-What’s your advice to the
“newcomer?”
Be persistent
11-Who or what is your
inspiration/style icon?
My daily life is an inspiration
12-What is the best advice you ever
received?
Never be afraid
13-In 3 words or less, describe the
current state of fashion.
Dual, Paradoxical, Changing
14-If you were a retailer, would you
wear your own designs or shop in your own store ? or where would you shop?
Yes and in London
15-If you won a $200,000,000 power
ball (lottery), what is the first thing you would buy or do?
I would launch a new project, a short
movie probably
16-If you could invite up to 4 people
for dinner, who would they be…dead or alive?
Sharon Stone, Gainsborough, Jean
Baptiste Mondino, Grace Coddington
17-What is your favorite movie /or
movie star?
Kubricks’s A Clockwork Orange
18-What is the one thing you would
change about yourself?
My anxiety
19-Whose opinion do you value most
and why?
My first boss taught me everything,
which has brought me to where I am today
20-What store or which designer do
you most like to shop in or wear ?
Nike Town in NYC
21-What’s your take on magazines,
books versus the internet?
I like both! Internet for the
velocity of information but magazines
and books remain as absolute references with in addition the notion of
possession and archive
22-Do you have a dream collaborator?
Pharrell
23-What is your crowning achievement
thus far in your career?
Successfully progress every season;
every season is a new challenge
24-What’s your music library like?
Drake – Nothing Was the Same
25-What and where is your favorite
meal?
Double-Double Cheeseburger at the
In-N-Out in LA
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