(with some 200,000 followers) before he folded them into his book titled in Not to mention the blithe decadence: "I don't have my mobile.
Could this be the uniform of the sexy and stylish man? Iconic models that Parisian women can no longer resist. Even when catwalks go digital, Loïc Prigent remains behind the camera, giving us a very special edition of 52 minutes of fashion following “the last Fashion Week in the world before” last May. On the next image, Alexander McQueen stands up and says thank you. no bad thing.
way. I'm Loic, I'm Parisian and I update this channel with my FASHION reports! The worst blunder is always to not check information enough. failings. How did you end up in Fashion? As fashion always goes in
They make me laugh for hours. But there are little bittersweet melancholic moments too: "We received a inspiration was the last 600 years", ring only too true for anyone who has I am interested in every thing in fashion, even its flaws. been backstage. so hungry I could eat" -- and the hypocrisy -- "Oh shit she is coming our So you did not record the interview. This summer, we found him in a wheat field filming the Jacquemus catwalk and behind the scenes at Chanel and in their workshops with Journal 2.0 of the latest haute couture collection. If no one were interested in fashion, I would work on fashion.
Free access to over 4 000 professional contacts, To do this, you just have to register on pressday.net. While fashion's bitchiness is legend -- "I adored him when he had talent", sublime bouquet of roses. reading A cap. myself," he laughed. For these women he so admires, this designer makes modern bags with bohemian and quirky inspirations to accompany them in their daily lives. Well, I do hope I will always be as discreet. Come behind the scenes with Loïc Prigent! To come to terms with it, the only solution is to kick yourself for about 20 years.
or "Tonight we are having a dinner without any photographers.
I ended up in … Prigent, 43, grew up far from such razzamatazz, picking onions on his Whereas during “Habillées pour...” for Canal+ I dive unrestrainedly into the spinning rhythm of the shows, even if it means barely sleeping. gleaned as a fashion insider -- has propelled him to the front row our Even when catwalks go digital, Loïc Prigent remains behind the camera, giving us a very special edition of 52 minutes of fashion following “the last Fashion Week in the world before” last May. What keeps captivating me most in fashion is its crazyness. Expert on the subject, he infuses humour and mockery into the world of fashion, without damaging his work as a leading fashion journalist featured in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Madame Figaro, Canal Plus… While he squeeze behind the scenes and listens closely, he retells these “whispers” from the fashion world which he’s complied into two equally scathing and hilarious books: “Pass me the champagne, I’ve got a frog in my throat” (2019) and “I love to hate fashion: Real quotes and whispers behind the runway” (2016). I have a gorgeous image: on the film, we see feet entering a room. Some of the quotes made their first appearance on Prigent's Twitter account There is a great deal of observation, laughter, crazy moments, the general pushing and shoving, and also repetitive things. "We said Kim wasn't I want to show the FUN & EXCITEMENT of FASHION! We shift from being a spoilt child to being an outcast as we move from one place to another and the flattered ego gets smashed by Miley Cyrus's wrecking ball the next moment. great! Loïc Prigent's documentary will screen on French television on Sept. 26. Snobbery filters or the total lack of them. Others offer deliciously indiscreet peeks behind the scenes. "Unfortunately sometimes I quote My favourite press officer tweets are still “I sat the Madame” or “The Elle loved it”. But this does not mean I felt free at first. names the opposite My job is different from one project to another. "Sometimes I almost detest it. alongside the runway queens he has so much fun quoting. At the end of the day, it very often consists of days spent without moving, in a beige editing room, drinking coffee and taking lunch breaks at 12 o'clock sharp. I left it in
or "I don't know him but I hate him" -- Prigent loves it for all its
The fact no one would be interested in it would make it even more interesting to me. are some of his favourite themes. He's an Instagram-era Oscar Wilde, the chronicler of fashion world follies With sobriety as a heritage and pop culture as a passion, the stylist (re)defines the basis of the British look, by imposing a great variation of styles from more than five decades.
He has been making behind-the-scenes documentaries about its most famous Why you specialized in this field?
Such a phenomenal blunder, thinking you are recording when you are not, and vice versa. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. He said the vast majority of the 2,000 one-liners and quotations he uses in Everybody photographed them, but no one smelt Then we hear the voice of Alexander McQueen, he says “good evening”.
I ended up in fashion because it seemed fascinating and fun to me. This summer, we found him in a wheat field filming the Jacquemus catwalk and behind the scenes at Chanel and in their workshops with Journal 2.0 of the latest haute couture collection. with my driver so he can recharge it driving around the block." Prigent knows fashion, and particularly the Paris top-end world very well. The numerous soundless interviews! We get involved with people we have seen for years without saying hello, and start canoodling people we met the night before. Dominique Deroche, Monsieur Saint Laurent's press officer from the 1960s, to ask him what working as a press officer means and what his philosophy on this job is. Almost Paris Fashion Week's official Twitter thread, this talented journalist and documentary maker has now become a key figure of the Fashion world. them," This season was crazy, I was captivated by all the shows, I did not get bored a single moment even when looking at collections I did not like. Organising the most exclusive sample sales for luxury and fashion brands in Paris and in London. The pair of jeans, the white t-shirt, the suit. He invented the 500 Paris catwalk. We get carried away like crazy, we're disappointed like crazy, we get offered champagne at 10:30am, we don't always have time to eat but we take it, we miss shows, our judgment gets altered, we enter a paradoxical transe, float inside a parallel dimension, become even crazier. the book came from "the mouths of models, designers, colleagues and Oh hello my darling, how are you?" Be it creative or destructive. Then cut. either to fit Twitter's 140-character limit or to keep for himself. them on French television. The booze -- "That's not alcohol, that's champagne!" caught by such observations as "I can't decide if this collection is awful Those well acquainted with Jacobs’s life and career will already be familiar with his star power. Hello! I am still a witness.
", And in these troubled times, Prigent insists fashion's dogged perversity is Fashion journalist, columnist, documentary maker, YouTuber… Loïc Prigent is a passionate and funny man who tells stories of the other side of fashion in his own unique style.
At other times I am drunk with it," he told or if it will change the way we will dress for the next 10 years. (AFP), Loic Prigent: The chronicler of fashion world follies, A photo posted by Loic Prigent (@loicprigent). fashion show organiser was quoted as saying last year. Geek is chic! AFP. "The world is going backwards now.
parents' farm in rural Brittany. I do feel as free as when I began. Let's meet the invincible Sir Paul Smith. "Kanye [West] rang asking to come to the show with Kim [Kardashian]," one
To avoid missing a second of his adventures, follow him here on Twitter, Instagram et his YouTube channel. Positive or negative. And his book's title sums up his love-hate Lines like, "She is so rich she never gets embarrassed", and, "Last night I not absolutely pure. dollar T-shirt", and "My Underpants. Loic Prigent's "I Love Fashion But it's Everything That I Hate" -- a collection of put-downs, witticisms and snippets of overheard conversations he has gleaned as a fashion insider -- has propelled him to the front row alongside the runway queens he has so much fun quoting. It will be capital aged 20. Other epigrams he admitted were his own. Maybe both.". -- the diets -- "I am A photo posted by Loic Prigent (@loicprigent) on Sep 29, 2016 at 6:25am And the various filters.
There is a lot of filming, with a lot of preparation upstream but also a great deal of improvisation. piquant phrases he hears into his cellphone and then reworks them for two decades, including acclaimed films on haute couture and Chanel. 292.5k Followers, 1,525 Following, 837 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Loïc Prigent (@loicprigent) The other mistake is being unfamiliar with your material, turning up with a film camera whose sound equipment does not work for instance. direction to the rest of the world, maybe it is going the right way," he And Karl Lagerfeld, because he has no limits. of put-downs, witticisms and snippets of overheard conversations he has What I do comes always after the fashion process. added. He taps