4. People
Being Normal is Crazy Enough- Viktor & Rolf
The AFR Magazine | 2009 The Dutch duo Viktor and Rold are fashion designers as performance artists-the most successful stuntsters in the business. The habitual reaction to fashion displayed in a museum or gallery is a sort of quiet reverence, accompanied by lots of shuffling, and a pause to watch some archive footage before heading off to the gift shop. In [...]
A Win For The Suits- Robert Polet
The AFR Magazine | 2008 HOW ABOUT THIS FOR revenge served as sweet as a strawberry sundae? In April 2004, when it was announced that a Dutchman called Robert Polet was moving from the $10 billion frozen-foods division of Unilever to take the reigns of the Gucci Group from July that year, the fashion reaction was distinctly, well, chilly. But while [...]
When Pam Met Lydia
The AFR Magazine | 2008 It’s not often that questions of a financial nature provoke gales of laughter. But in the case of Pam Easton and Lydia Pearson, the duo behind the revered Brisbane-based label Easton Pearson (now in its 20th year), the mere mention of anything to do with money provokes the giggles. Pearson; “How much capital did we [...]