Pierre Hardy talks to Filep Motwary

Photography by Vassilis Karidis

I am having a video call with Pierre Hardy, who is known for the various shifts in colour and shape in his work. He appears on the screen wearing a vibrant orange jumper and during our conversation he reveals his fondness for black at a younger age, how he worked simultaneously for Dior and Hermès in his mid-twenties and how dancing and sports formed the man he has become. Confusing? You bet, but his work is creative, constantly flourishing and continues to be copied throughout the world. Continue reading “Pierre Hardy talks to Filep Motwary”

Sebastien Meunier talks to Filep Motwary

Photography by Marie Déhé

It’s been almost two years since Ann Demeulemeester chose Sebastien Meunier as her successor. Since then, the brand’s atmosphere has moved towards a freshness with a sense of an urgent appeal for a new start. One would expect that a great loss for fashion would follow this enormously onerous transfer of responsibilities, but thankfully, Meunier’s collections are far from being a failure. The clothes are good, the sales are good, the mood is good—and today is a bank holiday in Belgium to boot. Continue reading “Sebastien Meunier talks to Filep Motwary”

Mirko Borsche talks to Vassilis Karidis

Photography by Vassilis Karidis

Dapper Dan visited Mirko Borsche, founder of graphic design studio Bureau Mirko Borsche, at his Munich HQ.

VASSILIS KARIDIS: Were you born in Munich?

MIRKO BORSCHE: I was born outside of Munich, near lake Tegernsee. It is a very beautiful lake—it looks like something from Heidi! The whole area looks like that.

VK: Then you went to study in London?

MB: I went to study in London because I had some police problems in Germany doing graffiti. I really had to leave. Continue reading “Mirko Borsche talks to Vassilis Karidis”

Olivier Rabourdin talks to John Jefferson Selve

Photography by Vassilis Karidis

Olivier Rabourdin is an actor. His face encapsulates the myriad paths of French cinema. He represents both the most niche arthouse cinema and today’s mainstream cinema, characterised by television series. This actor has both a man next door side to him and an unsettling strangeness, thanks to his deep blue eyes, somewhat unexpected or out of place in this face marked with lines that have been lightly and perfectly etched into it over the passage of time. It is in his dulcet tones that he tells us more about himself and his work. Continue reading “Olivier Rabourdin talks to John Jefferson Selve”

Chrisitian Braad Thomsen talks to Kim Laidlaw

Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Christian Braad Thomsen photographed by Rolf Konow

Danish filmmaker Christian Braad Thomsen is a man of many talents, with a CV encompassing feature films, documentaries and books about the silver screen. At the last Berlin Film Festival he showed his documentary, Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands, examining the life and work of iconic director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who was a close friend of Thomsen’s until his death in 1982. Thomsen took time out from promoting the film to talk to Dapper Dan about his approach to filmmaking, his influences and, of course, the legendary work of his old pal Fassbinder. Continue reading “Chrisitian Braad Thomsen talks to Kim Laidlaw”