Vogue Presents Global Conversations, Part 1
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Pictured in order of appearance: Edward Enninful (top left), Marc Jacobs (top right), Kenneth Ize (middle left), Gabriela de la Torriente (middle right), Stella McCartney (bottom left), and Gabriela Hearst (bottom right).
In the first of a series entitled Global Conversations, Vogue have released a panel discussion with four international Fashion Designers, hosted by two Editors-in-Chief, and with an introduction by Anna Wintour.
Edward Enninful speaks with Marc Jacobs and Kenneth Ize, while Eugenia de la Torriente speaks with Stella McCartney and Gabriela Hearst.
The overall tone is sobering, yet consistently points to a light in the midst of uncertainty. The conversations were wide ranging, and the responses were unscripted. All designers share a desire for change, and their passion can be felt throughout their brief replies. Themes of sustainability and creativity appear throughout, while Jacobs specifically notes that the fashion system as it has always been is effectively obsolete.
“If every individual everywhere says, ‘How can I love myself so that I can be better and of service to somebody else?’ If we can do one positive thing, whatever it is, in terms of the environment, in terms of being kind, in terms of creation—if we can contribute to the benevolence of this world we live in, then we’ll be making a huge, incredible, well-learned, smart step forward.”
— Marc Jacobs
“Creativity never stops. It needs to keep moving. You have to find ways to do it. And I believe the way we can do it with the situation we have now is just to keep creating content, and also using the spaces that we have to express and to tell our story.”
— Kenneth Ize
“We have to stop and consider the waste. It’s spiraled out of control. We’ve seen in such a short period of time how incredible Nature is, how she bounces back so quickly when we just stop for a second. I think that’s so hopeful, and none of us knew. I always thought, how could we ever get out of this issue, this problem that we’re facing? Will we ever be able to heal the earth? It looks like we can. So we have to come out with hope.”
— Stella McCartney
“I feel that, because it has affected us in the Western World situation that we live in, we feel more empathic maybe about things that happen in other parts of the world like Yemen and Syria. So I think becoming more empathic will be, hopefully, the result I would like for this pandemic. And I think that at the end of the day, all of the good values that we put in our product will not be enough to just have people buy your product. They have to buy it because it’s a great product, it’s well designed. No one is going to buy because of your good intentions.”
— Gabriela Hearst
Watch Part 1 of Vogue’s Global Conversations presented by British Vogue below.
Sources: YouTube, British Vogue