뉴욕 패션위크, 그리고 폴로 랄프 로렌 포 우먼 런칭 시점에서 스타일닷컴(의 더크 스탠든, 아래 DS)이 랄프 로렌(RL)과 인터뷰를 했다. 원문은 여기(링크)에서 볼 수 있다. 아래 부분이 약간 흥미롭다.
DS: Have you followed at all what Hedi Slimane is doing at Saint Laurent?
RL: Sure. Have I seen it? Yes.
DS: I’m asking because for a long time I think women’s luxury fashion was about putting these very high-concept collections on the runway. Maybe you got a lot of press, but you weren’t necessarily selling a lot of those clothes. Maybe you were selling bags. And it seems to me that Slimane came along at Saint Laurent and had a different approach. It’s more about looking at a certain lifestyle that he really likes and then designing perfect items for that lifestyle. And now the rest of the fashion world is kind of following suit. And it struck me that it’s taking a page from your book in a way, that it’s what you’ve always done.
RL: I’ve always done the style that I loved, so I didn’t mind sending an old pair of jeans down the runway. It’s about that style. It’s not Hedi Slimane. You know, I’m not all that familiar with his thing—I really don’t look. I certainly know who he is. But it’s funny how people will recognize what I do, and when I’m doing it they don’t get it, and then after, all of a sudden when other people start doing it, they get it. So I’m designing what I want. If it’s a man’s coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I’ll do that. It’s whatever my mood is. But it’s about style, and it’s about an understated taste that’s cool.
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