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Nicola Formichetti has always used the tools of the day to construct subcultures’ worlds at their most stylish. Perhaps this explains why he became a properly, mproper stylist. Between beverage sips, Formichetti discusses his earliest fashion memories, manga dreams and clubland. The various colours, shapes and phases that came from being a nomad brought him to fashion and to working with Lada Gaga. All of this happened without a plan, by the way. Formichetti just goes. This interview took place 17 September 2013.
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Highly regarded German-born photographer Peter Lindbergh always looked for beauty that was not always beautiful. Lindbergh always worked on his own definitions that defined certain women in certain eras. His honesty celebrated the women he believed in. Lou Stoppard asks sharp questions to figure out if Peter Lindbergh, a fashion photographer, does indeed like fashion. His answers, much like his pictures, reveal honest truths. This episode of In Fashion with Peter Lindbergh explains fashion in photography as an ingredient, just not the main dish. This interview took place on 19 May, 2017.
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Publisher and Dazed founder Jefferson Hack sits down with Lou Stoppard to stress how balancing partnerships are important to level up from ‘Dazed & Confused’ being a punchline. Hack connects the lines between independent and anarchist, fashion and style, escapism and arriving that reveal how attraction breeds ideas. He also shares how finding your creative family fuels an industry to aim for a higher creative aptitude. Hack’s intuition led to independence that freed Dazed group to speak directly to their audience, just don’t ask him what his true talent is. This interview took place on 14 March 2014.
Dazed founder Jefferson Hack thinks validation and education, for himself, is overrated. Here Hack talks about growing up looking at bigger psychological stories in style magazines using heart, soul and belief. This particular episode of In Fashion also reveals Jefferson Hack’s preoccupation with Billy Idol.

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Hearing creative director Matthew Williams define what Been Trill is certainly encapsulates a certain pre-streetwear, pre-hashtag zeitgeist in fashion. These temporary spells of ideas created on a critical, but ratchet, playground were the early arenas for Matthew Williams’ authentic passion projects. Williams and Lou Stoppard talk about a formula in childhood that factored how football, Nike logos, denim production and job termination lead to good things, like trusting his own voice. This is how visions converge in an interview that took place 31 January 2014.
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Daring to be different drives David Sims’ ambitions the most. Forming the style and character that has redefined three successful eras in imagemaking has shown that he who dares, wins. In an autobiographical conversation with Lou Stoppard, David Sims complains about childhood influences that he can’t seem to shake. This ironic, authentic interview took place 26 March 2015.
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Glen Luchford looks back upon a life that could have gone only two ways, according to his mum’s psychic. In a particularly lively edition of In Fashion, Luchford uses humour to seduce listeners by sharing stories on shooting the Stone Roses, or was it Guns N’ Roses? Shampoo was Luchford’s key to unlocking a job in photography. It helped elevate his suburban existence one step above the banal. That is Glen Luchford’s criteria for a great fashion image — make it anything but dull. And so that is what he did in life. His relentlessly precocious thing helps too. This interview took place 27 April 2015.
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