Tuesday afternoon I rushed the rather long walk to the Conference Auditorium, arrived a little late and a lot out of breath, only to peer into the empty room..Then suddenly hit me about the change of location and quickly rushed back up towards the Design School...
Eventually found a seat in the right room and sat and listened to Colin Mcdowell the Chief Fashion Journalist of the Sunday Times. I definately thought it was the most interesting lecture that I have been to. He was a great speaker, very funny and extremely informative. He compared Designers to Athletes referring to how they "couldn't run at the front of the race all the time" Designers can't sustain a position at the top. Which is obviously very true..New Designers appear with better collections, bolder ideas and bigger attitudes to take the top spot. He went on the describe Chanel as not a "great designer" but a "great activator". He explained that Chanel was more about attitude and changing the thinking than the clothes themselves. She wanted women to be modern and to be as good, if not better than men. He perhaps rather controversially stated that Chanel failed as a Designer because she was so ahead of her time. Unlike Calvin Klein who was exactly in the right place at the right time...NYC..and brought about great lines of masculine clothes for women, including the renowned CK suit.
Colin Mcdowell then continued to chat about great designers and artists of the past that's set out to create and design because of something they believed in.Today, everything is about making money and how much can one get.
He appeared to know everything about everything and all designers back to front. He delivered is speech with such humour and interest. It really gave me something to think about..he jokingly expressed that he was the past and we were the future.."design for yourself and no one else".
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