Blend Magazine Interviews Some of Our Favorite Fashion Designers

By Ara Anjargolian | 05 January 2009, 8:08 AM

Happy 2009! We're spending our first days of the new year researching some fashion designers, one of our New Year's resolutions being to grow our new designer index into an invaluable, authoritative resource.

That's how we ran into Blend Magazine, a Dutch publication covering fashion, music and culture. Luckily, the publication also maintains an English version, with a few articles from each issue translated and available online. Here we found some interviews from of our favorite fashion designers. In the context of fashion, reading these is an thoughtful, inspiring way to start your new year.

"There is no general recipe. If you see early Bless as a friendship and the structure it forms today as a collective of like-minded people, then the products are the documentation of how to have a good time today."

--The ladies of Bless

"I think it's interesting for designers to have limitations, certain boundaries. We realized we don't lose anything by it. It's even more accessible. I think we have achieved we wanted to, or we are on the way…you should never say, 'Oh, I’ve done it,' but the main thing is that we're on the way."

--Ange and Gabi of Three As Four

Either you do everything your self, but then restrain your self. Or you enjoy what other people are doing. It is just two choices basically. For me it's life. When you take on a job, you live your jobs all day all night, then you have to enjoy it. And I think that you also have to consider, even though you get a lot of work and hard pressure, if you enjoy what other people are doing you get something back.

--Jonny Johannsson of Acne

In London, I find there's always this very clear period point of reference, like a trend, while I find in Belgium, it's much more personal. I'm not saying that one way is better than the other, but that way [the Belgian approach] is just what’s right for us. The artistic approach is very free.

--Peter Pilotto

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