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Zac Posen
American
Designer
Born:
Oct 24
,
1980
About
Fashion
Me
People
Think
You
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I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.
Zac Posen
Food
Cooking
About
Sharing
Chef
Passionate
Tradition
Don't worry about what's cool and what's not cool. Authenticity is what's cool.
Zac Posen
Worry
About
Authenticity
Cool
Some of the best kitchen discoveries come about through total kitchen disasters.
Zac Posen
Best
Total
Some
About
Kitchen
Through
Come
Disasters
Discoveries
At the end of the day, you can't compete with Mother Nature. If you've got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.
Zac Posen
Day
Great
Nature
You
Mother
End Of The Day
Salt
Mother Nature
Got
Pinch
End
Just
Sea
Tomato
Compete
Need
I want to make things of quality. I'm a big believer in handmade, tactile, crafted pieces. I want to keep that tradition alive.
Zac Posen
Quality
Big
Alive
Tactile
Pieces
Make
Big Believer
Tradition
Handmade
Crafted
Want
Keep
Believer
Things
I try to push design boundaries using new draping and fabric manipulation techniques every time I approach a new design.
Zac Posen
Time
Try
Design
Every
Every Time
Approach
Fabric
Push
Boundaries
New
Manipulation
Using
Techniques
Obviously, I like very beautiful food, because I think as delicious as food has to taste, it also has to look very beautiful - the process of presentation is very important.
Zac Posen
Beautiful
Food
Important
Think
Delicious
Like
Look
Also
Obviously
Because
Very
Taste
Process
Presentation
The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
Zac Posen
Fashion
Shapes
Within
Politically
Clothing
Different
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Should
Body
Displayed
Thing
I am totally unattached to material items.
Zac Posen
Totally
Material
Am
Items
Taking sartorial risks and not following other people is what makes you stand out.
Zac Posen
You
Risks
People
Other
Out
Following
Taking
Makes
Stand
There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
Zac Posen
Great
People
Joy
Imagination
Jim
Chaplin
Would
Would-Be
Charlie
Charlie Chaplin
Major
Understand
Greatest
Walt
Walt Disney
Artists
Influence
Disney
Who
Film
Career
I started cooking out of middle school depression.
Zac Posen
Depression
Cooking
School
Out
Middle
Middle School
Started
One of my goals and dreams is to work in film in the future.
Zac Posen
Work
Future
Dreams
Goals
Film
To me, being in fashion is about your work, not about facilitating a lifestyle.
Zac Posen
Work
Fashion
Me
About
Lifestyle
Being
Your
To me, the more dialogue amongst creative types, the better. It keeps people on their toes, and competition is healthy.
Zac Posen
Me
Creative
People
Competition
Better
Healthy
Types
More
Dialogue
Toes
Amongst
Keeps
I'm a SoHo born-and-raised kid. So my parents dragged me to lots of museums, and for birthdays and any kind of celebration, we'd go to the theater.
Zac Posen
Me
Parents
Birthdays
Kid
Kind
Go
Lots
Celebration
Any
Theater
Dragged
Museums
At the end of the day, you're not defined, I don't believe, by your financial means. That doesn't make you a better person or a smarter person.
Zac Posen
Day
You
Financial
Better
End Of The Day
Believe
Defined
Better Person
Smarter
Make
End
Person
Means
Your
I go online at night and I order flowers, rare flowers, and then they come in the mail. That's my fashion detox.
Zac Posen
Fashion
Rare
Online
Detox
Mail
Come
Go
Order
Then
Night
Flowers
One of my fantasies is to produce 'Auntie Mame' as a play.
Zac Posen
Fantasies
Produce
Play
Fashion is a pay-to-play game; this is an industry. At a certain point, you must bridge a gap where you are supporting the reviewer, the publication, and that is very real.
Zac Posen
Fashion
You
Game
Must
Point
Supporting
Industry
Real
Reviewer
Very
Where
Certain
Certain Point
Bridge
Gap
Publication
I always end up in the kitchen at restaurants. At events or parties, too, I like to see where my food is prepared or made. I like the theater of it.
Zac Posen
Food
Events
Made
Too
Restaurants
See
Kitchen
Like
Parties
Always
End
Up
Where
Theater
Prepared
I like films that probe emotional questions and inspire you to get creative and get writing, get draping, painting, cooking, whatever that thing is where you have that kind of output.
Zac Posen
You
Creative
Cooking
Writing
Inspire
Whatever
Painting
Films
Kind
Output
Emotional
Like
Questions
Get
Probe
Where
Thing
I'm interested in the opportunity that people can self-create using social media and the online dialogue. Before social media, you needed to have a lot of personal funds to break through to hire the right people and build a presence to start a line. It gives the opportunity and platform for people to be discovered.
Zac Posen
You
People
Opportunity
Social Media
Build
Before
Right People
Online
Gives
Through
Dialogue
Hire
Line
Discovered
Lot
Personal
Break
Interested
Social
Using
Platform
Media
Right
Presence
Start
Funds
Needed
There's nothing wrong with being pretty.
Zac Posen
Nothing
Pretty
Wrong
Being
Being Pretty
I was very interested in theatre, so my first love of fashion comes from costume, and I think that's pretty clear within my work and the level of theatricality.
Zac Posen
Work
Love
Fashion
Theatre
First
Think
Pretty
Costume
Clear
First Love
Within
Very
Interested
Level
When I first got to Brooks Brothers, my mom told me she remembered how upsetting it was trying to find professional clothes in the eighties. Suits would either be over-stylized or frumpy, so she said, 'Make sure it's tailored properly.'
Zac Posen
Mom
Me
Suits
First
Clothes
Would
Find
Brooks
Brothers
Properly
Tailored
Remembered
She
Make
Sure
Said
Got
How
Trying
Upsetting
Eighties
Either
Professional
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