16-9-9 【精短听力】我在英国时尚圈—设计鬼才顽童Alexander McQueen带我成长

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今日主题: 【精短听访】Percy Gilbert 我在英国时尚圈—设计鬼才顽童亚历山大·麦昆带我成长

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Percy Gilbert high-end London fashion designer now in Beijing

Percy Gilbert is a top-endfashion designer from the UK.

Track one     

Suits for the politicians andthe business people

You had companieslike ‘Shepard’s and Anderson’ who designed for Prince Charles

That’s what it was – it was allabout being a gentleman and how you presented yourself

It was a real lifestyle – formof communicating who you are

Fashion changed in Britain

It was really in the ‘60’s withbrands like Ben Sherman, the whole Portobello Road and Carnaby Street

That movement that took off –and the whole Mod movement really shaped British fashion

The Beatles in their skinnysuits with their hair

The whole colourful shirt thing– my old teacher – he had a shop on King’s Road – his name was StephenKing  - he became quite famous in dressing people in brightpsychedelic  shirts

It was a whole lifestyle –people really bought into and lived

How do you train somebody to bea designer?

I remember telling my teacherat school I wanted to apply for London School of Fashion – and started doingall this drawing

There was something naturallythere with me

It worked and I got in

They try and build up yourskills, build up your understanding

There is a lot to fashiondesigning that I think a lot of people do not understand

It involves society

And when you work for bigcompanies it involves the economy, what’s happening – it can even involvepolitics

I worked across both men’s andwomen’s wear

Studied women’s wear at LondonCollege of Fashion and menswear in Sussex.

Track Two

I managed to work with a veryfamous designer Alexander McQueen

He was very successful, verytalented designer

Even although I was doing a mensweardegree, when I met him I worked on women’s wear

Once you know how to design youcan design pretty much anything

When I was a student I met himduring Graduate Fashion Week and I said I would really love to work for you

He took me really seriously andgave me this metal business card

I sent in my CV and next weekthey called me in “Please work on a piece with one of our designers’ for ‘Daysand Confused’ magazine.

And then it just grew fromthere – a piece went into the V&A Museum

Fashion has a lot of tension, alot of pressure – it is a very competitive industry

Working with Alexander McQueen– we had a similar background- he was from the East End there was justsomething about us, we just clicked

Other students were very scaredof him – he was very strict

They invited me to Givenchy inParis

I worked on one of the maincouture collections

I also worked all night withMcQueen and another guy, who at the time I did not realise who he was

The day before the show we wentto the venue in a taxi

We worked the whole night- wewere drinking some champagne at the same time

It was only in the morning thatI realised who I had been talking with

The guy said “My name isPhilip”

“You are a hat designer – areyou Philip Tracy?”

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