New York’s fashion director Harriet Mays Powell sat down with Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci, the youngest couturier in history (he’s 33) to talk about couture and his recent resort collection, which was based on Morocco and David Bowie. And couture, that decadently fabulous season (fall 2009 kicks off next week) is still going strong. “Women buy couture because it’s very exclusive,” he says. “When you sell a dress you can sell it once. So you are the only one person owning this dress in the entire world.” Check out the spring 2009 dress that took seamstresses two and a half weeks to sew by hand (and costs 18,000 euros). (*original text from The Cut, NY Mag)
Love what he does at Givenchy, but Tisci is most certainly NOT the youngest couturier in the history. Yves Saint Laurent was named chief designer/couturier at the age of 21 at Christian Dior. And McQueen also took over Givenchy at 27 too, so …
Anyway, at SS10 Givenchy podium show review on style.com, Tim Blanks started the article reviewing the original plans for Riccardo Tisci to design Michael Jackson’s upcoming O2 Centre tour. The icon found out about the Italian designer through the pieces of Givenchy’s womenswear he’d been wearing and was about to have a meeting on 29 Jun 09, which, of course, never took place in the end. MJ aside, English-Irish singer-songwriter Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons is another musician that Tisci has recently designed for. This made him to be the second ‘star’ project that Tisci has had after Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet’ tour.
