SUZANNE VON AICHINGER TALKS TO FILEP MOTWARY AND POSES FOR RENE HABERMACHER
OUR FRIEND FILEP MOTWARY OF UN NOUVEAU IDEAL RECENTLY INTERVIEWED SOME/THINGS ISSUE003 CONTRIBUTOR SUZANNE VON AICHINGER.
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[...FILEP MOTWARY / I wanted to ask you about the photo shoot you just did with Rene Habermacher. It’s so iconic, yet in a very special way. How was working with Rene?
SUZANNE VON AICHINGER / I loved it. We had a beautiful day together, with a great creative team. We wanted to express in this series something that is based more on personality, than fashion. I feel that there are many stories to be told in my future with René. There is a quality in his vision that is very strong and appealing.
FM / Exactly my point. The photographs serve our conversation so right! I’m very happy that Rick Owens was so positive when I contacted him for the garments. He is always so nice to me. Also for the fact that we shot his winter collection which is by far my favorite!
SVA / So am I! I LOVE Rick! He is one of my favourites. And, his fashion is timeless. I know that this can sound cliché, but if you have some pieces by Rick from 12 years ago, they are as relevant as pieces that he has made 2 days ago. They don't go in and out of fashion. They have their own essence and place.
FM / Having in mind that Rick's clothes are so special, yet the 2000's are the epitome of diversity. Each designer points out a different outline every season, there is so much choice. How do you see fashion now yourself, as a stylist?
SVA / It's hard for me to answer this. I see many great things happening, no doubt. But, I see a lot of nonsense going on as well. There is not enough power any more in the hands of the creators. Now, big design houses change designers like they change their underwear. Just ridiculous. There is no time for the designer in place to create a brand identity, that he is fired. And very often, they find out that they've been fired, by reading about it in the papers.
It's as if the financial/commercial people at the heads of some houses, envied the position of creator, and wished to usurp it. They believe that they are capable of being the creator. WRONG!!!!
[...]
FM / Do you mind if I ask you about your music? Well I dont know much about it but I saw some videos on YouTube and its pretty intense. They way you perform with the rest of your team It's three different music groups right?
SVA / Music has always, as far back as I can remember, been the NUMBER 1 important outlet and inspiration in my life.
I was obsessed with Snow White when I was a child. The music and story are very deep, profound, dark and romantic.
I always had quite an unusual, and relatively extreme, if not to say advanced taste in music. When I was 10 years old, I was listening to Pink Floyd, Santana, Dylan, Joan Baez, Thelonius Monk, Eartha Kitt, military marching music, and of course the music of Walt Disney.
Then one day, my sister told me about Alice Cooper. At this point my life changed. Everything made sense. Here was a man, so beautiful and his name was Alice. He wore corsets, makeup and high heels, had snakes, and was electrocuted, or hung at a gallows, or decapitated at the end of his shows. This spoke to me in a way that I had never felt before, I related to this very deeply. I was Alice Cooper. My parents thought it to be a little unusual for a little girl. I wanted my room to be painted black, and thought it to be very Romanesque to sleep in a coffin, like Sarah Bernard.
FM / I LOVE THIS.
SVA / I was then also listening to King Crimson, early Genesis (with Peter Gabriel only!), Johnny Winter, The Stooges, Brian Eno, early Roxy Music (the first 5 albums only!), which was quite sophisticated for a child really. I wanted to be a DJ, maybe even a rock star, but I liked the idea of being a male rock star.
FM / But how did you get involved in it finally?
SVA / I was making music mixes and compilations. Some of them for Rick Owens actually! And then started to record some of my vocals, doing strange improves, etc...
I met Timo Ellis, who is a multi instrumentalist, prodigy, heard some of these recordings and he loved them, so we did some sessions together, with John Paul Keenon (Japa) an extraordinarily great drummer. I couldn't believe that these guys would be interested in working on this project! So we recorded Gluttonius "Roman Style" and I also recorded some things with their band The Netherlands...]
/ EXCERPT FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH SUZANNE VON AICHINGER BY FILEP MOTWARY. THE feature, is a collaboration between Un nouVeau iDEAL and THE STIMULEYE
/ SUZANNE VON AICHINGER is photographed by Rene Habermacher in RICK OWENS Fall/Winter 2011\2012.
A PREVIEW OF THE EDITORIAL WITH SUZANNE VON AICHINGER PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHAN SANDBERG IN SOME/THINGS ISSUE003 IS AVAILABLE ONLINE
[...FILEP MOTWARY / I wanted to ask you about the photo shoot you just did with Rene Habermacher. It’s so iconic, yet in a very special way. How was working with Rene?
SUZANNE VON AICHINGER / I loved it. We had a beautiful day together, with a great creative team. We wanted to express in this series something that is based more on personality, than fashion. I feel that there are many stories to be told in my future with René. There is a quality in his vision that is very strong and appealing.
FM / Exactly my point. The photographs serve our conversation so right! I’m very happy that Rick Owens was so positive when I contacted him for the garments. He is always so nice to me. Also for the fact that we shot his winter collection which is by far my favorite!
SVA / So am I! I LOVE Rick! He is one of my favourites. And, his fashion is timeless. I know that this can sound cliché, but if you have some pieces by Rick from 12 years ago, they are as relevant as pieces that he has made 2 days ago. They don't go in and out of fashion. They have their own essence and place.
FM / Having in mind that Rick's clothes are so special, yet the 2000's are the epitome of diversity. Each designer points out a different outline every season, there is so much choice. How do you see fashion now yourself, as a stylist?
SVA / It's hard for me to answer this. I see many great things happening, no doubt. But, I see a lot of nonsense going on as well. There is not enough power any more in the hands of the creators. Now, big design houses change designers like they change their underwear. Just ridiculous. There is no time for the designer in place to create a brand identity, that he is fired. And very often, they find out that they've been fired, by reading about it in the papers.
It's as if the financial/commercial people at the heads of some houses, envied the position of creator, and wished to usurp it. They believe that they are capable of being the creator. WRONG!!!!
[...]
FM / Do you mind if I ask you about your music? Well I dont know much about it but I saw some videos on YouTube and its pretty intense. They way you perform with the rest of your team It's three different music groups right?
SVA / Music has always, as far back as I can remember, been the NUMBER 1 important outlet and inspiration in my life.
I was obsessed with Snow White when I was a child. The music and story are very deep, profound, dark and romantic.
I always had quite an unusual, and relatively extreme, if not to say advanced taste in music. When I was 10 years old, I was listening to Pink Floyd, Santana, Dylan, Joan Baez, Thelonius Monk, Eartha Kitt, military marching music, and of course the music of Walt Disney.
Then one day, my sister told me about Alice Cooper. At this point my life changed. Everything made sense. Here was a man, so beautiful and his name was Alice. He wore corsets, makeup and high heels, had snakes, and was electrocuted, or hung at a gallows, or decapitated at the end of his shows. This spoke to me in a way that I had never felt before, I related to this very deeply. I was Alice Cooper. My parents thought it to be a little unusual for a little girl. I wanted my room to be painted black, and thought it to be very Romanesque to sleep in a coffin, like Sarah Bernard.
FM / I LOVE THIS.
SVA / I was then also listening to King Crimson, early Genesis (with Peter Gabriel only!), Johnny Winter, The Stooges, Brian Eno, early Roxy Music (the first 5 albums only!), which was quite sophisticated for a child really. I wanted to be a DJ, maybe even a rock star, but I liked the idea of being a male rock star.
FM / But how did you get involved in it finally?
SVA / I was making music mixes and compilations. Some of them for Rick Owens actually! And then started to record some of my vocals, doing strange improves, etc...
I met Timo Ellis, who is a multi instrumentalist, prodigy, heard some of these recordings and he loved them, so we did some sessions together, with John Paul Keenon (Japa) an extraordinarily great drummer. I couldn't believe that these guys would be interested in working on this project! So we recorded Gluttonius "Roman Style" and I also recorded some things with their band The Netherlands...]
/ EXCERPT FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH SUZANNE VON AICHINGER BY FILEP MOTWARY. THE feature, is a collaboration between Un nouVeau iDEAL and THE STIMULEYE
/ SUZANNE VON AICHINGER is photographed by Rene Habermacher in RICK OWENS Fall/Winter 2011\2012.
A PREVIEW OF THE EDITORIAL WITH SUZANNE VON AICHINGER PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHAN SANDBERG IN SOME/THINGS ISSUE003 IS AVAILABLE ONLINE