《Apartmento》專訪 Band of Outsiders 主導人 Scott Sternberg

在最新一期的《Apartmento》雜志中，刊登了一篇有關洛杉矶時尚品牌 Band of Outsiders 創始人 Scott Sternberg 的訪談，並展現了自己極具藝術氣息的住宅。在這次對話中，這位才華橫溢的設計師也談到了時尚領域內的衆多話題，包括作爲一個小品牌會遇到的問題等等。此外，他還談到了自己決定給人氣設計師 Tom Ford 提供一些業務決策上的建議。下面我們便爲大家帶來這次對話的節選內容，完整的訪談內容不妨閱讀这里。

Sternberg marvels at getting it done, Tom Ford style: “Tom Ford is an interesting one. He’s somebody that got out, not intentionally. I think he sort of screwed up. He played his cards a little too far and they said, ‘bye bye,’ at Gucci and then he somewhat successfully made a movie…Then, he gets back in the industry. At the beginning I thought, ‘God, this guy is kind of genius.’ He launched fragrance and eyewear first and then beauty, makeup—all of it. Now these are the tertiary things that you do. Actually, that other people do with your brand so that you make a lot of money. Now I’m like, ‘Oh my god, he’s so fucking smart,’ because he doesn’t have to do all this crap, waste all this fabric, make all these clothes that nobody is ever going to buy that’s essentially for a few stylists to shoot and is part of the ‘dog and pony show’. He just cut right to the chase. What a genius.”

…Or maybe Ford isn’t a genius, Sternberg muses: “And then all of the sudden, he’s doing menswear and opening these ridiculous stores that are so out of touch to me with where consumers are at these days, even the luxury consumer. And then he’s doing womenswear and then he’s not showing on the runway and I’m like, ‘He’s a genius, he’s not doing the runway.’ And now, he’s showing on the runway. So I don’t know, I guess we’re not on the same page, Tom Ford and I.”

But still, there’s plenty to envy about the TF model: “He’s selling a dream without the middle part, without that sort of wasted part.”