'I know I’m doing heavy name drops, but I feel like society needs an aspiration. Especially now.'
It has been more than two years since Hood By Air presented its last runway show at New York Fashion Week, and even in absentia, the label’s influence on the industry has grown so large that it is difficult to see all at once. Hood By Air’s collections, created by its founding designer Shayne Oliver, perfected the union of streetwear and high fashion, and in doing so, helped create the global merchandising blueprint for menswear today.
WEST: Having the blessing or opportunity to be a creative should always be therapeutic, not stressful. I feel like people really need to see the McQueen documentary to understand the level of pressure that is put on creatives when we’re forced to put out things that we don’t believe in.OLIVER: I think it was in the stars.
WEST: I love that Rick Owens can maintain and keep putting work out. And then I see people like you or Haider [Ackermann], who get a really well-oiled machine to support your ideas for just a season or two. Then Haider gets pushed out of Berluti, or someone has the “creative” idea that you’re just a one-off at Helmut Lang. Whether it was Akeem’s photographs, or your designs, I’m still going to run onstage [at the VMAs] and tell you how they had the best video.
, and people take branches until the tree can’t give anymore and then they go find a new tree. That’s why moments of hibernation and getting off the schedule are necessary. They should be more commonplace. They should be more expected. Henry Ford wanted the Amazonians to keep on the time schedule, and they didn’t do it. They were like, “We want to wake up when we want to wake up.” That feeling of a rush right before the fashion show and that nervous energy has everyone so scared.
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