INTERVIEW WITH GARY CARD

我真是觉得
without artist world dies.
并且我是那么地喜欢那些美丽的创作者
那些不懈于创造这个世界美丽的维度和广度的人们
they do whatever they want!
always getting what they look for!
值得我们去深深体验这些成功的例子！
从某些方面说
今天要介绍的这个人
他是一个艺术家。更是一个视野家。
从他身上
你能体会出那些生活中有趣的细节
特别是再london的那些年轻的小伙子
竟然可以把一切可爱的事情用非常严谨的态度去做
得感谢facebook
让wtle先生成功采访到这位艺术先锋
下面是他的作品和采访

最近的作品
相信很多人见过这张hedi为jethro拍摄的fashion diary
此面具就是Gary Card制作
他再自己的blog中谈到：
”Last week Anna (Nicola's assistant) popped round asking if there was anything she could nic for a shoot in paris,

'What are you looking for?' I asked

'Not sure really, anything small and rubbishy' she replied. So we filled her bag with small rubbishy things from my prop archive and off she went. This is the result.

The mask is made from wire and an old hessian sack.“

made for a Stella Mccartney/Adidas advertorial.

送给他爹地的画。

for TOPSHOP

为henry hollan制作的special dj set.


So first of all, can you tell me how everything started for you ?

Well, I guess it all started at college, my friend Jacob Sutton and I would do little photography projects, I'd make stuff and he'd shoot them, eventually we started contributing to a small Magazine called Less Common, which caught the attention of quite a few people in the industry. It kind of went from there really,

Was fashion something you've always dreamt of ?

To be honest, no, I mean I always loved fashion, at the time of choosing an Art College Alexander Mcqueen was massive, so going to St Martins was really important for me, but illustration was always my passion when growing up.

So you're a designer right ? how do you describe your work?

I find it difficult describing my work as it varies so much, I illustrate a lot, I make props, costumes and head-dresses. and then of course theres the set design. The subject matter changes so much too, sometimes it's light and poppy, sometimes it's dark and strange. it all depends on the job I guess.

And you've been modelling for Another Man too !! The pictures were so wicked !! Tell how was that experience?

Very weird actually, at first I was very shy in front of the camera but the guys I shot with were all close friends so I quickly relaxed and had fun with it. I found it hard to keep a straight face though.

i heard that you've been workin for Stella McCartney, to decorate her windows. How was this experience and how is Stella in real life ?

The experience was great, it was a wonderful spontanious job, Stella was very excited about the idea of me making 'live art' in the window so i spent a week drawing and painting in her shop window. Stella is lovely, very funny and warm.



By the way, do you remember your first shoot ? how was it ?

Yes, it was incredibly stressful and a complete disaster, I'm leaving it at that.

So for me, you're part of London new rising scene. Is it stimulating and artistically wicked growing right now between such influential and talented kids ?

artistically wicked!?! My goodness. It was very exciting a couple of years ago when a lot of new talent was starting emerge and London seemed to be the most culturally important city in the world, but now the hype has died down and there doesn't really seem to be that much happening here, the talented kids I was among a while back are now becoming quite seasoned stylists/designers/artists so on, I think we need some precocious young guys to come up and shake things up again. I'm hoping the recession might do that, amazing creativity always come out of times of hardship, like punk for example.

Oh and what makes the characteristic of your personal style if you had to describe it ?

I love the classic gentleman style, macks, ties, suits ect. Colour is important in my look, I wear very bright colours, reds, pinks, lime greens and a hell of a lot of purple. The ideal would be somewhere between Woody Allen and Prince.

How does your schedule look like ? Is it complex and exhausting as we imagine ?

It's pretty full on right now, not that I'm complaining though, I'm very lucky to get so much attention and do what I do. Not many people are lucky enough to do what they love for a living.

Gary please, is there a life after styling ? If yes, what are your future projects ?

Well I'm not a stylist so I wouldn't know but there is a lot of exciting things coming up, I'm not telling though because I don't want to jinx any of it, I really can't wait for my website to be up and running.



What is lacking in fashion magazine right now that you'd like to see ?

I'd like to some magazines be a bit braver with editorial, a bit more experimental, I think a lot of magazine have been playing it safe for a while.

The world is in crisis. Do you think it's really gonna have a deep impact on fashion right now ? what is gonna happen ?

I don't know, maybe it means we'll all go back to basics and start considering the essential components of what we make, in other words - less waist. That doesn't mean to say we should be any less forward thinking or exciting. I think that's the challenge. That's what I've been thinking about anyway, I can't speak for others.

By the way is your heart really taken ?

Ummm, does that mean am I in a relationship. If so then yes, I've been with my boyfriend for almost 5 years. His names Henderson and he's Gareth Pugh's right hand man. He's very talented.

If there was a secret to beauty. What would it be ?

My work rarely concerns beauty. There are different elements to what I'm asked to create- drama, fantasy, pop culture, sex, surrealism. all these things are potentially beautifull but none of them define beauty. I don't believe in defining anything.

Finally what is stylish today ?

The purple blanket that's rapped around me as I write this coz it's so bloody cold in my flat, that's stylish.

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