2024-12-29
50 分钟Foreign.
Hello, and welcome to the Curator on Monaco Radio with me, Fernando Gustavaceko.
Over the next 60 minutes, we'll be bringing some of the very best interviews and reports from the whole year here on Monaco Radio.
And this week we talk with guests including Norwegian author Karl Ove Nausgaard.
You are outside of the place you are in, but you're also outside of the country you come from.
So to me, it's always been like a perfect place to be a writer because I'm always on the outside.
Plus, the new creative director of Uniqlo, Claire Wade Keller.
All the men's, all the women's, all the socks, everything that you regularly see in a Uniqlo store, I now look at as part of my design remit.
All that and much more in the next hour here on the Curator with me, Fernando Augusto Pasceco.
And this show, we're celebrating the best of 2024 here on Monaco Radio.
We'll start with a special interview from Monaco's brand new podcast.
It's called Monaco on Fashion.
And in this particular episode, Monaco's fashion director, Nathalie Teodozzi, spoke with the new creative director of Uniqlo, Claire Way Keller, who was previously the artistic director of brands including Chloe and Givenchy.
She spoke about her unorthodox career move, the joy in designing for the many, and what the Japanese fashion business can teach its European counterparts.
It's a global director role at Uniqlo, and that means that I oversee basically everything that you look at in the store, except for the kids.
I'm not involved in the kids wear, but all the men's, all the women's, all the socks, everything that you regularly see in a Uniqlo store, I now look at as part of my design remit.
So this role was something that kind of organically grew as I've been starting to work with Uniqlo over the last couple of years.
We had launched my collaboration collection last September, but previous that, I'd actually been working with the group for about a year, planning that collaboration, doing the collection design and also naming it, doing all the labeling, trademarking, everything else that we we need to do to prep a launch for a new collaboration.
And so as part of that process, I was spending a lot of time Tokyo and with the team in Ariake, which is near the port in Tokyo, where the big Uniqlo offices are.
And at that stage, you're kind of seeing a lot of things around the office of what they do on a global scale.