Models Mariacarla Boscono, Jamie Bochert, Greta Varlese, Adam Auslander, Chris Gray, Luca Jamal, John Kolic, Rob Lelle, Shawn Lindo, Damien Medina, Sean Morales, Tyson Oaki, Laurence Rodriguez, and Dominic Weir are styled by Karl Templer wearing Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci. Photographer Fabien Baron captures the fashion frenzy for Interview Magazine February 2016./ Hair by Duffy; makeup by Marla Belt
In his interview with Anohni, Tisci talks about growing up with eight older sisters and no father, trapped in a life of poverty. This leads quickly into a discussion of androgyny.
ANOHNI: Right. But there is also a codification around economics. Because what you're saying is that the androgyny in your clothing is inspired by the fact that poor people can't always afford to buy gender-specific clothing. Which is actually kind of fucking genius.
TISCI: I think it's amazing. When you go to India or Africa, that is all mixed. The aborigines in Australia, the way they dress is very honest; it's not about: "Oh, you wear a skirt, you're gay." You know, in the beginning I didn't want to do a menswear collection. It felt a little forced. And then I found that it was an amazing world. I started to draw and design clothes that I couldn't find, because everything was all luxury, fashion clothes or very straight. So I mixed all of that together: Who says I can't put a man in a skirt? Who says that a man can't wear lace? Who says that men can't wear Swarovski? Who says that men can't wear makeup? You know what I'm like; for me, straight, gay, women, men, trans, we're all the same. I don't see difference. This was the big message Marina and I wanted to give in New York in September—which was very dangerous—you know, that religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate. And that is fantastic for me because, no matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.
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