I just came back from listening to the Olivier Theyskens talk at FIT- something that we would have went to together if you didn't slip away for two weeks. Well, you know me, I don't like to miss things which I think may be of interest or of importance.
Fashion having almost faded from my view over the last few years, having become more interested in the tenets of style, I still had a vague but clear memory of the name Theyskens and in particular his attitude and method of construction (extensive, deliberate). Although he is now the person behind the more commercial label Theory, it would seem from his talk that he is not any different than he was when was young- with all the same "childish" (his words) appreciation of things. I was struck when he said that there were some pieces that he would do, and keep going back to- developing them, and mentioned that the reason was perhaps it was something he had seen when he was younger that was in his mind (but could not exactly place).
Earlier in the day, I watched a short interview with him in which he said that when he was very young, he already knew what he wanted to be- a Couturier (capitalization mine) and was encouraged by the people around him. That alone made me want to go to the talk, thinking back to the many times that my many possible roads (fashion among them) were brushed off by people very close to me. They never know the harm that narrow minds can inflict, years on.
Anyway, it was a fun talk, and I found myself drifting sometimes in my own memory of what could have been, and thinking if it really was too late. Maybe, and then again, maybe not.
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