Post by Simone on Feb 6, 2023 16:32:42 GMT -8
This interivew with Haider Ackermann is very revealing and eye-opening. I'll leave it up to you to read the entire article as it provides interesting information about business decisions Haider has made that at one time seriously threatened his career. But alas, he's on the right track again.
His partnership and collaboration with Timothée is a beautiful mutually beneficial brotherly relationship and I look forward to their many years together.
Here are snipets from the interview with Haider which focus on questions and comments about Timmy.
In Conversation: Haider Ackermann
How did you meet Timothée?
It was all accidental. It happened when I was working for Berluti and I got a request from Brian Swardstrom [agent for Chalamet and Swinton], asking if I would be interested in meeting the young Chalamet. It was his first red carpet in Berlin, for Call Me by Your Name; I didn’t know what would happen afterwards – I didn’t see it coming. Sometimes you meet someone, and you just know you can build a story together and have a moment together that may really last.
‘Haider is one of my closest friends and a creative from a lost era – his is the rare passion that cares about the purity of design, shapes, colours, textures, and the feelings they evoke. He couldn’t possibly pretend to care about a fashion cycle or algorithm-influenced trends – his talent and creativity are set to last because he is following his own drum beat, no one else’s.’
Timothée Chalamet
It was all accidental. It happened when I was working for Berluti and I got a request from Brian Swardstrom [agent for Chalamet and Swinton], asking if I would be interested in meeting the young Chalamet. It was his first red carpet in Berlin, for Call Me by Your Name; I didn’t know what would happen afterwards – I didn’t see it coming. Sometimes you meet someone, and you just know you can build a story together and have a moment together that may really last.
‘Haider is one of my closest friends and a creative from a lost era – his is the rare passion that cares about the purity of design, shapes, colours, textures, and the feelings they evoke. He couldn’t possibly pretend to care about a fashion cycle or algorithm-influenced trends – his talent and creativity are set to last because he is following his own drum beat, no one else’s.’
Timothée Chalamet
The two most recent collaborations were at this year’s Venice Film Festival, and both were very impactful. Let’s talk first about Timothée; how did the idea for that silhouette evolve? That backless red shantung waistcoat and love handles went viral and was a huge moment for you!
[Laughs] It was just about questioning. We talk a lot about transgender and gender fluidity, which I am of course intrigued by, but not particularly attached to. What I do find interesting, though, is the vanity of men, and how men are vainer than they used to be; they are more challenging. Timothée is in full view at the moment, so we wanted to create a moment and raise questions, to see how far we could go with something, to see what could be done with a man who is very masculine showing his sensibility, showing his nudity. Why is nudity always about women? That questioning came about when we were just playing together. I noticed the assurance he had when he started walking and looking at himself in the mirror, and I was like, OK, we have to do something challenging as you feel so confident and you look at yourself with such self-assurance. There was all this seductive energy going on and I was like we have to do this. It was not prepared and it was not calculated. There were no stylists around; it was just him and me playing around, and that is how it came across. That is the beauty of our businesses: when you’re with a close group of people, you can build and create together. Nowadays, the industry is so big and you have to be surrounded by so many people with so many opinions that you lose perhaps these kind of special moments.
[Laughs] It was just about questioning. We talk a lot about transgender and gender fluidity, which I am of course intrigued by, but not particularly attached to. What I do find interesting, though, is the vanity of men, and how men are vainer than they used to be; they are more challenging. Timothée is in full view at the moment, so we wanted to create a moment and raise questions, to see how far we could go with something, to see what could be done with a man who is very masculine showing his sensibility, showing his nudity. Why is nudity always about women? That questioning came about when we were just playing together. I noticed the assurance he had when he started walking and looking at himself in the mirror, and I was like, OK, we have to do something challenging as you feel so confident and you look at yourself with such self-assurance. There was all this seductive energy going on and I was like we have to do this. It was not prepared and it was not calculated. There were no stylists around; it was just him and me playing around, and that is how it came across. That is the beauty of our businesses: when you’re with a close group of people, you can build and create together. Nowadays, the industry is so big and you have to be surrounded by so many people with so many opinions that you lose perhaps these kind of special moments.