Astrid Anderson Fashion Week Mens 2018 Playlist
A strid Andersen's voluminous, logo-heavy, pastel street-wear might not seem like get-to stagewear for a member of the A$AP mob, but for the 2nd year running, the Danish designer has named A$AP Ferg her muse, this time for her spring/summer 2016 drove. And credit where credit is due: the rapper wears it well. At a fashion party in London's Oval Space where Ferg is performing, the Harlem rapper talks grills, Ralph Lauren and the power of a white T-shirt.
You lot've collaborated with Astrid Andersen on her new collection and scored fashion moving-picture show, Water. Is information technology fair to say you were both inspired by Tekken?
Aye, aye, it's definitely Tekken, the score music and the looks. All those bright, metallic pastels and the fabrics. I had to do a fighting scene for the moving-picture show [a short fashion film starring Ferg and his erstwhile "hype human" having a fight in a forest wearing Astrid clothes and soundtracked by Ferg] so I had a sensei teach me how to fight for ii days. We also had to habiliment these metal nails, and so shit went Wolverine too.
It's non the start time yous've collaborated with Astrid. How did it all come up about?
We beginning met when we did the Topman collaboration last year. This time round, she flew to LA, nosotros had lunch, and I was like: let's but work on some stuff. She hadn't seen sunday in months considering, yeah, she's from Denmark, so I wanted to get her out. She's the girl version of me. It'south great because Astrid could have picked anyone to be her muse. I call back she just feels similar I accept the confidence to article of clothing her pieces. She gets colour and I get color, too. You can ain a Picasso or a Rothko merely not anybody can talk about Picasso's hues, or Rothko's colours. It takes a certain type of person to be able to flaunt that sort of thing, and that's what I practise for Astrid.
You're from Harlem. How does London'southward fashion compare to New York?
There feels like a lot more than energy in London. It's upscale, and they like to use good fabrics, but information technology'southward also got that sporty thing going on. New York is more sleek chichi but less risky. Depends on what you like, I guess.
What designers are you lot into wearing at the moment?
I like Alexander Wang, information technology's real quality. I also like the Gap. I was a Gap kid, you know, like you lot take those hoodies forever. Everyone had a Gap piece. And Ralph Lauren. At that place'southward a kid who grew up in the Bronx and became a success. Ralph is my pinnacle guy. He figured information technology out, you lot know, how to own a brand that's available at every price, which ways yous tin can afford to do the fun stuff at the pinnacle terminate only still pay the bills. I like Acne jeans, as well, because I love the way they perform, and obviously Astrid for everything else.
Yous've become pretty known for your grills, too.
Aye, these ones on the bottom are prayer hands fabricated by this great kid in Canada. They're dope.
You lot studied art and design. Why did yous move from fashion to music?
I was always rapping, I was ever battling dissimilar kids, from different cliques. I also used to make my own stuff on a small calibration but information technology was hard for me to become a designer, so equally soon as I got the opportunity to rap, I did that. And when the A$AP mob blew up, that only took off. It'south weird that I'm a rapper in front of the globe, because I used to existence behind the scenes. But you know, I like to think I do both. It sort of adds to my brand, though, for real.
There's a potent relationship betwixt rap and fashion, at present more than than e'er. Look at Kanye's drove for Adidas and A$AP Rocky in Hood x Air. Is there pressure to wait a certain way?
I don't feel pressure. I do what I similar. I don't dress to anyone's standards. If yous wear a white T-shirt with conviction, that's all you demand. Growing upwardly, a white T-shirt was it. A fresh white T-shirt and a haircut meant you were doing adept. Just Rocky and Kanye, they expect fly, they know what they're doing. I don't call up information technology's forced, it's like natural way for them. It's but that mode's but taking notice.
So if you had to cull betwixt mode and music, what would you choose?
Right now I'one thousand working on my new anthology, but I can't pick. I'll exercise both and. I like pressure, I always get information technology washed no matter how much fourth dimension I have. I have a good worth ethic.
Like Parkinson'south constabulary: "Work expands to fill the time bachelor for its completion."
That's so true. Look, when the pressure'south on, I'll just squeeze out a diamond when the time comes.
The collaboration is office of the Scarlet Bull Catwalk Studio, which brings musicians and designers together
0 Response to "Astrid Anderson Fashion Week Mens 2018 Playlist"
Post a Comment