Written by Shumpei Okamoto
On Wednesday, May 4th, invited by the executive director of the Academy of Art University, Gladys Perint Palmer two of the most influential ladies in the fashion: Cathy Horyn, the fashion critics for the New York Times, and Nathalie Rykiel, daughter and the creative director of Sonia Rykiel, visited San Francisco “the land that forgot style” according to Guy Treabay who is the colleague of Ms. Horyn. Because of her sharp insight and passionate critic of the fashion, Cathy Horyn has gained a unique distinction and been referred as a “true quote” and/or the “matter of fact”. As opposed t the re-informers and bloggers who just use the information from other articles and blogs, her articles have always been flesh and full of original content which has been entertaining a lot of people, except some designers. Her writings are sometimes too honest and harsh to delight the designers as some of her article in New York Time said that Alexander Wang is “not a great designer” and Tommy Hilfiger’s collection is “boring and ugly”. Sitting across from Ms. Cathy, Nathalie Rykiel looked very calm and shy lady; however, I can’t deny that her words, which came from Ms.Rykiel were full of passion to the fashion. In the discussion, she strongly mentioned “You have to be unique and original and yourself. ” no matter what students are studying. How can designers be original and distinguish themselves from others? “You have to love fashion.” she said as if designers are about to live and die for it because design comes from the essence of designers own life.
On Wednesday, May 4th, invited by the executive director of the Academy of Art University, Gladys Perint Palmer two of the most influential ladies in the fashion: Cathy Horyn, the fashion critics for the New York Times, and Nathalie Rykiel, daughter and the creative director of Sonia Rykiel, visited San Francisco “the land that forgot style” according to Guy Treabay who is the colleague of Ms. Horyn. Because of her sharp insight and passionate critic of the fashion, Cathy Horyn has gained a unique distinction and been referred as a “true quote” and/or the “matter of fact”. As opposed t the re-informers and bloggers who just use the information from other articles and blogs, her articles have always been flesh and full of original content which has been entertaining a lot of people, except some designers. Her writings are sometimes too honest and harsh to delight the designers as some of her article in New York Time said that Alexander Wang is “not a great designer” and Tommy Hilfiger’s collection is “boring and ugly”. Sitting across from Ms. Cathy, Nathalie Rykiel looked very calm and shy lady; however, I can’t deny that her words, which came from Ms.Rykiel were full of passion to the fashion. In the discussion, she strongly mentioned “You have to be unique and original and yourself. ” no matter what students are studying. How can designers be original and distinguish themselves from others? “You have to love fashion.” she said as if designers are about to live and die for it because design comes from the essence of designers own life.
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