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Newspaper Article
OUT OF FASHION
2015
Overview
[Christian Lacroix] still has plenty of affection for fashion: in 2013, he was briefly lured back to create a one-off couture collection for the relaunch of Schiaparelli. \"It was a dream,\" he says. \"I acted like a stage designer in charge of sketching costumes for a musical about Elsa Schiaparelli, with her as main character, not as a designer in charge of a couture customer wardrobe.\" It's not too different to how he approached fashion as a whole - as a stage for life, much as he designs his hotels and theatrical productions today. \"I loved seeing my sketches become reality on the runway,\" he says of his years in fashion, \"expressing my own world and fantasies in the most theatrical and operatic side of fashion... The Eighties was the most outrageous decade for fashion.\" \"Life beyond fashion is wonderful,\" laughs [Rifat] zbek. \"That should be your opening line!\" says the twice-crowned British Fashion Designer of the Year (in 1988 and 1992). After 30 years in fashion, zbek now describes himself as \"a designer. Not interior, not fashion: just a designer. I've got my cushion thing [Yastik by Rifat zbek], I've got the furniture, I've got all different sorts. I don't want to be categorised as just one thing.\" He still does fashion - he designed for Italian fashion label Pollini as recently as 2008 - but his most recent project? He designed the interiors for Robin Birley's London club Loulou's. Not fashion, but highly fashionable. Today she feeds her creative appetite designing interiors, mostly for hotels. \"I fall into things,\" she laughs. She's also fallen into designing wallpaper for Graham & Brown, and establishing her own brand, Iconclub, which utilises her eye for interiors and fashion products alike. \"After Biba we went to Miami, because Ronnie Wood said he was opening a club, and asked if I would like to design it,\" recalls [Barbara Hulanicki] of her Rolling Stones friend. \"Six months turned into two years... and we just never left.\" During that time, Hulanicki also met Island Records founder, Chris Blackwell, and a commission to design a video costume spun out into an entire hotel, the Marlin, in Miami. \"He bought 10 other buildings,\" Hulanicki says. \"And it kept going and going...\"
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Independent Digital News & Media
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