Tim Walker Talks ‘Wonderful Things’ | Inside Fashion
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The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The acclaimed photographer sat down with Tim Blanks to discuss the ‘infinite objects of beauty’ that inspired his new V&A exhibition.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm taking a picture of Lee McQueen because I'm celebrating him. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm not taking a picture of Tim Walker's impression of Lee McQueen. |
| 0:12.0 | Throughout all the rooms and wonderful things, what you've become really aware of is how transformative the power of the imagination is that it's not just you being inspired by the object, it's people who made the object. |
| 0:24.6 | There's a definite melancholy to photography. |
| 0:27.6 | It's inescapable. |
| 0:28.6 | Click of the camera goes, and then you're like, there goes the beauty. |
| 0:32.6 | That's it, it's done. |
| 0:33.6 | And then you have a photograph, and that's a 2D representation of something that was |
| 0:40.2 | sublime. |
| 0:43.6 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to the B.O.F. |
| 0:48.6 | This week, as London Fashion Week was taking place, fashion insiders were already buzzing about a new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in honor of the photographer Tim Walker. |
| 1:00.6 | The exhibition features more than 150 new works inspired by the VNA's own collection in an exhibition designed by Shona Heath. |
| 1:10.0 | Now, our very own Tim Blanks had the opportunity to sit |
| 1:12.8 | down with Tim Walker just before the exhibition opened and he came back blown away. So here's |
| 1:18.9 | Tim Blanks and Tim Walker inside fashion. I'm sitting here with Tim Walker on the occasion of his |
| 1:26.8 | show, wonderful things at the Victoria and Albert Museum. |
| 1:30.3 | And I've just seen the show. So it is such a pleasure to have this opportunity to talk about it with Tim. |
| 1:36.3 | And I think for everybody who comes to this show, it is a world of wonder. |
| 1:42.3 | It is full of wonderful things. |
| 1:44.2 | And I wanted to know why Tim called his show wonderful things. |
| 1:48.5 | I think wonderful thing is we were, it was a working project for sort of two, three years |
| 1:53.9 | and you're encountering so many different things and it was just a journey. |
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