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The Business of Fashion Podcast

Craig Green Talks Creative Evolution | Inside Fashion

The Business of Fashion Podcast

The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6770 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Speaking with Tim Blanks, the designer reflects on his journey from a love of 'making things' to becoming a fixture of London's menswear scene.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Very, very quickly, there was a Craig Green language.

0:06.6

In every collection, it starts with an idea of tradition, even maybe in the end,

0:10.5

it doesn't look like that when you see it.

0:12.3

Often after a show, when you talk about the show, you're very pragmatic.

0:16.1

It's amazing that certain people, when reviews and stuff, can kind of see something else

0:20.2

that you didn't even see,

0:21.1

but it's completely what it's about.

0:23.0

You became this sort of tent pole of London Fashion Week, you know, the must-see show.

0:27.7

How does that sit with you?

0:29.1

What I do would not exist without London.

0:31.7

And then there's a consideration of, yeah, if you suddenly move show, even if it's for one season,

0:36.3

there is, of course, that, like,

0:37.7

worry that are you then moving on?

0:41.1

Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion.

0:45.1

This week on the BOF podcast, Tim Blanks sits down with one of our favorite designers, Craig Green.

0:52.1

When I first met Craig, many years ago, he was sitting at one

0:55.8

small little table in a studio in East London. He told me he had two and a half employees. I was

1:02.3

shocked to see such an incredibly creative talent managing a business with so little resource. Well,

1:09.7

Craig has grown a lot since then. His creativity has grown

1:13.4

and his business has also grown. He's one of those designers that has had a signature from the

1:18.7

very, very beginning and has found a way of evolving and developing and amplifying that signature

1:24.1

in a way that's exciting season after season after season.

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