Matthew Williams on His Journey to Founding Alyx | Inside Fashion

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The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week, Matthew Williams talks to Imran Amed about working with creative talent in music, art and fashion before launching his luxury streetwear brand Alyx.

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0:00.0	This episode of Inside Fashion is brought to you by Klarna.
0:03.6	Clarna lets you shop now and pay later.
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0:16.8	I'm really interested in making clothes that represent what it means to live today.
0:22.2	I was like, okay, I'm going to drop out of school and work and then apply for Parsons.
0:25.8	And then I got the letter back.
0:27.5	You know, unfortunately, you're not accepted.
0:29.9	And my first job was not designing.
0:32.4	It was production.
0:33.6	That was your fashion school, basically.
0:35.3	Yeah.
0:35.7	I mean, you worked with, you know, everyone from Lady Gaga to Kanye West to Nick Knight,
0:39.3	but I guess there was still something inside you that you wanted to do your own thing.
0:43.3	All the projects as an art director had been making someone else's idea the best it could be.
0:49.3	Lady Gaga's creative director or Kanye's creative director or Ben Trill.
0:53.3	It doesn't represent who Matthew Williams is as a person.
0:57.9	Hi, this is Imran Ahmed founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion. Welcome to Inside Fashion on the
1:03.6	POF podcast. You know when you meet someone and you just could talk to them forever? Well, that's how I felt the
1:09.6	first time I met Matthew Williams.
1:11.1	We met at a dinner in Paris.
1:12.7	And I asked him, you know, can we have a chat like this on our podcast?
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