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Gaspard Yurkievich launched his first women\u2019s collection in 1998, after winning the Festival de Hy\u00e8res in 1997. The French designer quickly became the name of choice for fashion forward men and women who appreciate his urban collections with the Parisian touch. His lines now include menswear, accessories, and his ever so popular shoes. We caught up with Yurkievich during a quick stop in Berlin upon an invitation by the fashion school ESMOD.<\/p>\n
schlank<\/strong> What was your incentive for sitting in the jury for a graduation show? schlank<\/strong>: And what do the snapshots show you? schlank<\/strong>Isn\u2019t that what every generation says about the next one? schlank<\/strong> As an established, or in your words \u2018older\u2019 designer, what advice would you give aspiring, young ones? Gaspard Yurkievich launched his first women\u2019s collection in 1998, after winning the Festival de Hy\u00e8res in 1997. The French designer quickly became the name of choice for fashion forward men and women who appreciate his urban collections with the Parisian touch. His lines now include menswear, accessories, and his ever so popular shoes. We caught…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10172],"tags":[10,77,21,78],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-berlin","category-film","tag-belaid-le-mharchi","tag-esmod","tag-fashion","tag-gaspard-yurkievich"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"\n
Gaspard Yurkievich<\/strong>I was invited to be the president of the jury. It was very flattering, of course, to be \u201cthe president.\u201d But seriously now, I\u2019m getting older, and as a designer, it\u2019s interesting for me to see what the younger generation is following, what are their influences. Being on the jury for a graduation show is like taking a snapshot of that generation.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_9173-450x300.jpg\" "\\"Gaspard")
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GY:<\/strong> First of all, the technical level of the students is astonishingly high. The schools is really getting behind and pushing them. I was teaching for three years at the Arts d\u00e9coratifs <\/em>and let me tell you, as a teacher you can get very involved, it\u2019s intense. Another thing is that there\u2019s a certain loss of innocence. It’s like the time we live in doesn\u2019t allow the students to be na\u00efve anymore.
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GY:<\/strong> Not at all, I\u2019m not saying that everything was better back then. I wish I had all the possibilities of the internet when I was a student and the social networks when I was starting out.
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GY:<\/strong> Fashion is really a cross-over between industry and creativity. I think I have nothing to tell them, because they seem to be very aware of it these days. They know they need to be marketable. It\u2019s not better or worse than the way things were for my generation, it\u2019s just the snapshot of the now.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Photos_cWolfgang-Philippi-450x300.jpg\" "\\"Photo")
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