Well I once asked you to make me a specific jacket in a certain colour and you sent me something entirely different in a tapestry fabric, quite beautiful I might add, but how would you cope in the more corporate world?
AM: I wouldn’t be in a corporate world. DB: Even if you’re going to be working for a rather large fashion house like Givenchy? AM: Yeah. DB: So how are you going to work in these circumstances? Do you feel as though you’re going to have rules and parameters placed on you, or what? AM: Well, yeah, but you know I can only do it the way I do it. That’s why they chose me and if they can’t accept that, they’ll have to get someone else. They’re going to have no choice at the end of the day because I work to my own laws and requirements, not anyone’s else’s. I sound a bit like yourself! DB: Unlike most designers, your sense of wear seems to derive from forms other than fashion history. You take or steal quite arbitrarily from, say the neo Catholic macabre photographs of Joel Peter Witkin, to rave culture. Do you think fashion is art? AM: No I don’t. But, I like to break down barriers. It’s not a specific way of thinking, it’s just what’s in my mind at the time. It could be anything – it could
