Tag: Paris Fashion

#SuzyPod: “Creative Conversations” With Marine Serre

Posted on by Natasha

19 MAY 2020 for Vogue.co.uk

In Episode 5, we meet the young, dynamic French designer who’s proving to be a fashion visionary

Marine Serre gained critical acclaim with her second-ever collection, ‘Radical Call for Love’, which was created for her own label for Autumn/Winter 2017, and designed in the wake of the Paris and Brussels attacks while she was working at Balenciaga. It featured what would become her signature – a crescent-moon motif. 

This led to her winning the prestigious 2017 LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers. Rihanna presented her with the award and Karl Lagerfeld championed her work and became her mentor. 

Marine Serre in Paris with Suzy

This young French woman, raised in the countryside, was trained at a Belgian fashion school and can be seen as a fashion prophet. She seems to have seen the future and expressed it in clothes. 

Only a fashion prophet could have shown a collection that included images of flames before the Australian bush fires, and mask the faces of her models before the world knew of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

It has been a tumultuous ride for the designer’s small team, but with her use of regenerated materials; the up-cycling skills she inherited from her grandfather at his “brocante” (flea market); and the support of Lagerfeld and Adrian Joffe of Dover Street Market, Marine has achieved a cult following.

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#SuzyPod: “Creative Conversations” With Alber Elbaz And Stephen Jones

Posted on by Natasha

7 MAY 2020 for Vogue.co.uk

Be in the room with the wonderfully warm and witty designer and milliner in Episodes 2 and 3 of Suzy’s new podcast series 

In Episode 3 of “Creative Conversations”, Suzy is joined by the thoughtful, funny, and profound designer Alber Elbaz, as he enters a new fashion phase with the luxury goods consortium, Richemont Group.

Alber talks us through his career, from Geoffrey Beene to Guy Laroche then Yves Saint-Laurent Rive Gauche and 14 years at Lanvin, where he earned a reputation for creating looks loved by women the world over.

Alber Elbaz and Suzy in Paris

Fascinated by the world of medicine, Alber, explains that whenever he goes through a difficult time in his life, the only thing that saves him is going to work: ‘’It is my antibiotic.’’

He believes in storytelling and that we need to return to different ways of communicating today, especially to our students. The biggest issue they face is being exposed to an overload of information and data to absorb: “There is nowhere left in the brain to dream.” 

Alber also reveals how he loves the word ‘relevant’ more than ‘fashionable’ and how comfort is the definition of modernity.  

In Episode 2, Stephen Jones talks to Suzy about the fantastical world of his hats. Working with Christian Dior – and as the imaginative hatter of choice for Comme des Garçons and Marc Jacobs – Stephen explains how headwear is a method of communication and self-expression.

Suzy with Stephen Jones

With his charming sense of humour, the mighty milliner describes designing for fashion houses and private clients as being like going to a cocktail party: “You will have a different conversation and present yourself differently with each person in the room,” Stephen says.

The conversation takes us through his Saint Martins years, the late 1970s London club scene, and the creation of his own label. Stephen’s description of that period? “Our drug was Fashion.’’

We also discover how Stephen’s relationship with Rihanna started – when they were introduced by Suzy herself.

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