The fashion designer,aged 38, on being an immigrant, and body size and his own ‘incredibly boring’ wardrobeI’ve always been fascinated by the way women peruse. As a young boy,I drew pictures of women – never men. I had a teacher in first grade who would wear long skirts and I could sometimes catch a glimpse of her slips poking out of the bottom of them. I was intrigued by the way women walked, how they sat, or the secrets they might have. I’m sure you could have a Freudian field day with that.
My parents met in Geneva. My dad was Turkish,my mother was from Birmingham and they ended up settling in Montreal, so I grew up visiting grandmothers in foreign countries. I remember thinking they couldnt be further apart culturally, and apart from they both drank tea: one from a mug and one from a glass with sugar cubes on the side. Tea was a universal grandmother thing.
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Source: theguardian.com