emma maud
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she has just returned from a residency in new york
she studied at camberwell college of art
she lived with us for one whole year
she makes excellent canelloni
she is a fan of a legging with a stirrup
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This was posted by standbyme on the 27th of August, 2009
I eat breakfast in the same French cuffs that I eat supper
Enigmatic art superstar Samuel J Fouracre lives and works in London, and has caused sensations throughout the worlds of art and fashion with his spectacular new work All Girls Wear American Apparel. But what are the secrets of his success??? All is revealed in conversation with Dean Kissick, exclusive to StandByMe…30
All Girls Wear American Apparel
DK: How did you choose the girls for your photoshoot? And were you happy with them???
SF: The girls were conquests of one sort or another. As such, I can’t say I am entirely happy or unhappy with them. I am ambivalent. They are a complex collection of creatures, each one delightful in their way, each one a failure or a success, each one reflecting my strengths and insecurities.
On the day of the shoot, of course, they were delightful. No cat fights. In fact, we all sat and had strawberries together. It was a bittersweet experience.
All Girls Wore American Apparel
DK: And how did you choose their clothes?
SF: That was simply a matter of what excited me. It was important to me to have clothes that were instantly recognizable as American Apparel but that did not demean the girls. Someone asked me recently if I shouldn’t have had the girls more scantily dressed. That would be wholly inappropriate. Clothes are a flirtation. If the women were naked it would have closed down the relationship between the models and myself. It would have only one inevitable reading. But clothed, they hold possibilities… we are in that delightful moment of flirtation where no one has committed. That’s how life should be always… a perpetual state of endless, suggested possibilities.
DK: Would the world be a better place if all men wore smart tailored suits and all women wore American Apparel swimsuits?
SF: What other men wear is entirely irrelevant to me. Sometime ago, I think it was around the time that combat pants were made available to the general public, I had to develop a kind of male blindness due to a crashing disappointment in my sex.
There needs to be a definition here between women and girls. Girls of a particular age are exquisite in American Apparel and really should wear nothing else. But it is not for all women. Women are mercurial, and as such should dress according to mood. A woman of elegance will look beautiful in sweat-pants and sneakers, and then slide into an Alexander McQueen and just blow your mind. This is the pleasure of femininity. Masculinity on the other hand demands a certain degree of restraint. A limited palette if you will. I eat breakfast in the same French cuffs that I eat supper.
The Secret of My Success - Too luxurious to be bohemian, too singular to be bourgeois
DK: You’ve previously described yourself as “too luxurious to be called bohemian, too singular to be called bourgeois”, and praised “the sophistication of self-knowledge”… who is Samuel J Fouracre?
SF: I am the perfect collection of imperfections.
DK: You recently titled an exhibition “I climbed up the black mountain in a pair of sky blue Paul Smith loafers”… did that really happen? What was it like???
SF: There is a little artistic license in there. They weren’t sky blue loafers but ivory white, leather-soled brogue-style shoes with pink laces. However, when the gallerist asked me to title the exhibition I thought the “sky blue loafers” added a poetic aspect to the expedition that simply cannot be evoked by the brogue.
I still have them and wear them occasionally to remind me that even the greatest and most ancient impediment is surmountable with style.
The Secret of My Success – The sophistication of self knowledge
DK: Could you let us in on some of the secrets of your success?
SF: The secret is to embrace the spectacle and engage.
DK: Ok brilliant thanks!