EP 17 // MICHEL GAUBERT
MICHEL GAUBERT is no stranger to the affect of sound. With a refined curatorial ear for legendary fashion houses such Christian Dior, Fendi, Valentino, Chanel… it makes perfect sense to obsess over what Michel’s got on queue. In this episode, GAUBERT unveils his current rotation, along with his ethos for his iconic colette concept store & mixtape compilations.
“For whatever reason, Karl (Lagerfeld) was very fond of Latin rhythms... There was a song called ‘La Paloma’ which was like his favourite ever, ever and ever... because when he was in Hamburg, Germany supposedly when the sailors were leaving that was the song that they were singing and their wives were listening to.... when we did the show in Hamburg like three years ago, we had a live orchestra and the beginning of the show was “La Paloma” and during rehearsal he made us play it like seven times. ‘More, more , more...’”
Illustration by Luke Edward Hall