English - Designer | 1967 -
I have my fashion empire to build.
Ozwald Boateng
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.
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I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.
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When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.
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