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Raf Simons and Pieter Mulier: Why Fashion Needs Disrupting

The top designers sit down with Tim Blanks to discuss creative risk-taking, the meaning of luxury and how to disrupt fashion, courtesy of Self Service.
Pieter Mulier and Raf Simons
Pieter Mulier and Raf Simons. (Self Service)

A Sunday morning in early June. Raf Simons, co-creative director of Prada, is in Milan. Pieter Mulier, creative director of Alaïa, is in Antwerp. I’m in London. We can see each other. We’re going to talk about Belgium, which, I realise now, has insinuated itself into my life in ways I’d never truly registered: through the sounds of New Beat and R&S Records; through the art of Ensor, Borremans and Spilliaert; through the films of the Dardenne Brothers, and the stupendous doc by Johan Grimonprez “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” and, through decades of the clothes on my back, a fair number of which came from these two. So let’s talk.

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