Jos van Tilburg, G-Star founder, current CEO and shareholder in 1959, a stranger, "21": Your fashion ICON is how? Whether some of the Chinese men wearing suggestions?
van Tilburg: raw, rough, pure, personality, and I like to care without losing the fashion, without losing the traditional style of dress varied. At the same time adhering to the original mix and match to create a unique fashion, not follow the crowd. "Mashup" is the highest law of the fashion world, the Chinese men may be some still used to "set" idea of wearing such a suit jacket with a starched suit some pants and rub bright shoes, jeans, T-shirts must have thought it species with a fixed pattern must be broken.
"21st Century": What is your favorite fashion designers who, why I like this style?
van Tilburg: our own brand of designer Pierre Morisset! His native France, but he preferred to call themselves Europeans, like the G-Star, even though headquartered in Amsterdam, but it represents the style throughout Europe. A watch motorcycle racing, he saw a driver in the rain down the motorcycle, he noted that the drivers were soaked jeans shows a strange shape, especially the part of his knee: are soaked jeans and did not respond to his Zhitong Ku original shape, so he immediately returned to the studio began to draw sketches and drawings sent to us. A few days later, the first molding a modified model pants, Elwood was born. This based on the design of realistic and creative spirit that I most admire.
"21st Century": In addition to the "Queen's designer", the it would consider cooperation with other well-known designers to bring some brand new atmosphere?
van Tilburg: the famous Australian industrial designer Marc Newson, as a cross-designer, he had designed a variety of fields related to the exciting material, but never used one we think is most beautiful NING Bu work together. Since 2004, he has co-designed with our influence and reflect the industrial design features a mix of characteristics of the jeans. And we reach a consensus, we design "is not fashionable, but the products", will be G-Star has always respected the "inner product is more important than appearance" concept, while the "non-fashionable" concept in concrete images, Just the Product.
"21st Century": For you, the most luxurious things?
van Tilburg: of course, jeans! My closet about 40 pair of jeans, of which 20 are often wear style. Even went to see the royal family, dinner, and I still wear jeans, jacket is a suit and tie, jeans, dress can also be very elegant and very gentleman. Even to the golf course, I also wear jeans, if allowed, I would change one!
"21st Century": Do you like your present living conditions?
van Tilburg: I and many in the fashion industry is different, I just concentrate on doing their own brand. Unlike the others may also be opening a restaurant, invest in real estate and the like do a lot of other businesses. I created this brand, give it soul, creativity inspired by the music in daily life, people and places, blue jeans all my life and my dreams. Of course, such a large company management can not be completely arbitrary, I like a little pressure on the state.