What’s been some of your favorite projects to work on in your career?
What’s been some of your favorite projects to work on in your career?
I love something that I started many, many years ago, which is kind of bringing editorial to life. I started doing these “Paper Projects,” maybe 10 or 15 years ago, where I would just get a space and curate culture in the space. They were these extravaganzas that I would do. I did one during Fashion Week once, where they gave me these three tents and I did something called the "Lab Launch Pad Lounge." I just brought in bands, and I brought in artists, and I brought in craftspeople, and I brought in like, crazy artists, and I brought in fashion designers. Just all the things that inspire fashion. And I had three days of just rotating, like a festival, almost. And it was really fun. I would bring in people who are artists who are from fashion or who are inspired by fashion and designers who are inspired by art. So I discovered a lot of people – I gave Rick Owens one of his first shows. So I would do that every year.
And then I went to LA and started doing it in LA because I thought Los Angeles was a place that was very ghettoized and I wanted to bring people together that are diverse so it’s not ghettoized. And so I started doing these crazy pop-ups called “LA Projects.” And they were just like, happenings. So we’d just get an empty store and we’d rent it for a week and every day we’d have crazy stuff going on, art shows, bands playing, chefs cooking. And we’d always have a last supper at the end—all these great people in LA would come and we’d have a big dinner at a long table. Everything always ends at a last supper.
