Q: Are you interested in success?
A: Everyone is! Even a sweeper is interested if you say he sweeps well. It shouldn’t go to your head though, because it’s not for ever. I am not pretentious in such things. You know, from the beginning I could have been the best paid stylist. I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It’s not my thing. I don’t want to cheat people. And there are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don’t like a customer; I rush in and check all the names. If I don’t like them, I don’t take them.
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Q: How many hours a day do you work?
A: I begin at 9 am and I go to bed around 2am, sometimes around 3am. I sleep little. If I’m not working or entertaining, I love to watch the National Geographic channel. It takes my mind off business.
–Azzedine Alaia in 032c, via The Business of Fashion.
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Lately designers are releasing their upcoming season’s ad campaigns early and making an event of it, instead of risking the chance that images will be leaked online. Balenciaga is the latest label to release its fall campaign early and online, rather than print.
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