Work Clothes
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| Dries Van Noten |
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| Hussein Chalayan |
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| Kris Van Assche |
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| Nicolas Ghesquière |
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| Phoebe Philo |
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| Rick Owens |
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| Umit Benan |
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| Yohji Yamamoto |
I am one of those people who enjoys seeing what the designers themselves wear on their show days. Unlike your Karl Lagerfelds of the world, most designers need to wear something comfortable that they can actually run around and work in - after all backstage is not usually the calmest place in the world. I find that these invariably simple work outfits draw a far more intimate portrait of the designer as a person, as opposed to the designer as the designer. These are clothes they work in, that they find practical, that they find personal. Everything you need to know about them as a designer, you can see in their clothes. But sometimes you want to know more about the actual person behind that label of designer. It is not about having some romantic notion of the designer as great artist or genius (even if they do happen to fall into those categories), but rather about being interested in the creator of work you love.
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