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Personal vs Work life

Finally (after months of hanging somewhat neglected on my studio wall) I have made the much needed and appropriate effort to digitize this set of post-its. At some point during my parental leave (when I wasn’t a father for all that long yet) I had a very ‘motivated’ morning in which I went up to my studio first thing, coffee in hand. My new role as a father put time and responsibilities into a different perspective for me. The exercise of structuring my thoughts around this subject helped me to understand how I have certain strengths, and how I exercise these strenghts in specific areas (sometimes singularly). Being aware of this has helped me to think clearer about which path I want to take with my career and personal interests and how I can use strengths interchangeably between ‘lanes’. I’m not sure if I have been able to answer the questions at the top as of yet, but they are rather ment as mental prompts then concrete answerable questions or targets.

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On how 2020 changed the course of the fashion industry

Here at Hermès we use an equestrian phrase that seems particularly apt in this day and age: ‘Straight ahead, calm and poised.’ Fashion maintains a strange relationship with time: it consumes it. Yesterday tends to be devalued in favour of novelty, supposedly the only carrier of the future, but modernising does not mean throwing away the time that came before. We can’t erase the past. The frantic and superficial aspect of fashion is not helpful and doesn’t interest me. We should focus on creation first. I am optimistic: we are all artisans of innovation!

Véronique Nichanian of Hermès, in Fantastic Man No.32 (F/W 2020/21)