Yesterday, Style.com featured the fourth installment of The Future of Fashion which featured an interview with Olivier Zahm conducted by Dirk Standen. Olivier lended rich insight on the marriage of fashion and the internet, intimacy, the business of fashion, celebrity glamour, eroticism, why Purple magazine will survive amidst a difficult economic standing and the “ceremony” of a fashion show.
“The fashion show is a really important moment. It’s a ceremony, and it’s also still five to ten minutes of pure fashion, free from everything, free from commerce. I mean, we have to preserve this little moment, this psychological concept of potlatch, where you spend money for just feux d’artifice, fireworks. We celebrate, and we only celebrate and we spend the money away because we celebrate our love for fashion. So you and me, we have to go to fashion shows in this mind, with this spirit.” – Olivier Zahm
Photo: Camille Bidault-Waddington via Purple Diary – Currently my desktop screensaver
Interview: The Future of Fashion by Dirk Standen, style.com