Raf Simons 在《Another Man》專訪中談論家人對於設計的影響

Raf Simons 在聚光燈下通常表現得十分拘謹，正如在紀錄片《Dior and I》中他的角色一樣，所以他在同名品牌 2015 春夏系列中大方公佈一些家庭照片是很多人沒有料到的。隨著他的作品在全球受到歡迎，這位聲名鵲起的創意大師與《Another Man》進行了深入對話，介紹了家人的重要性以及他們帶來的影響。節選部分展示了 Raf Simons 是如何談論親人，并可到 Another Man 欣賞更多圖片。

After the Autumn/Winter collection with Sterling Ruby, it seemed that the only possible way to go for spring/summer was deeper inside myself — to find out where designing all started and how it fits with me personally. This collection was not about shapes or forms, it was a kind of ‘memory-wear.’ I was always thinking of the future for so many years and I was always anti-romanticising the past. But I have to admit the past can be beautiful too. There has never been a collection with so much of me personally attached to it.

I have always hated having my picture taken; I’m not sure why, but maybe it just felt irrelevant to me in terms of what I do. If I could choose to be anonymous I would be – I know it’s a cliché, but it’s true. Now, I have started to look at photographs in a different kind of way, as part of a memory. Many of the photographs I have used on the clothing in this collection are connected to emotions: love, happiness, fear, sadness… they all connect to moments in my life. Then there are pictures related to things that inspired me in the moment, as well as things I have always been obsessed by. Choosing the pictures was a very intuitive process; not everything was really about explaining in words.