Actually, if you want to hear something funny, when I was 6, I wanted to be an ice-cream man. But all my friends wanted to be a basketball player, and I didn’t want to do something that everybody else was doing. So then I wanted to be a basketball player. ROCKY: I wanted to be a football player, but then my dad shut down my dreams because he told me I would get hurt.
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But when you’re put in radical situations and environments, and you go from one extreme to another, you have to learn how to naturally adapt. You know how it is-when you grow up in a small town, it’s easy to stick to yourself and stay quiet. It helped me get a better concept of life and how to deal with people, as opposed to being antisocial. I think by the time I was 8 years old, my dad was already moving around, and my family was moving around. I was just trying to figure out the concept of life and society. I wouldn’t say I was creative, but if you want to call Pokémon cards and apple juice and candy creative, fine. ROCKY: I was oblivious to what was going on in the world. It felt like something that I could reach out to. And that brought it close to home, because Antwerp was half an hour drive from my parents’ house. But very quickly, I learned about these Belgian people. The first thing I learned about fashion was the French designers being very extravagant-this was the Jean Paul Gaultier period, so he was making a lot of noise. Learning about fashion really changed my life. Everything was so conservative there was no place for any kind of difference or personality. VAN ASSCHE: I grew up in a really tiny town, and from when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old, I was just waiting to get out of there. For me, being from New York City and doing hip-hop … It sounds cliché, but being from Harlem kind of puts me into a category. ROCKY: Do you think it had anything to do with the spirit of the country? There are so many great designers from Belgium-Margiela, Raf, Dries, Ann Demeulemeester. There’s also the cute story of my grandma making her own clothes and me being really close to her, begging her to make clothes for me. I knew I was not the artist type fashion just got my attention. And then I guess I started reading about fashion. KRIS VAN ASSCHE: I’m an only child, so I used to need to occupy myself, and I would always be in my room, sketching and making stuff up. But, at present, there just may be no better two bridge-builders in their fields.Ī$AP ROCKY: Growing up in a small town in Belgium, what interested you in fashion? What propelled you toward fashion? Who better, then, to showcase Kris Van Assche‘s excitable and eclectic Winter 2016 Dior Homme collection? But in so doing, in performing as the Dior Homme, is Rocky also making a little commentary, adding his own spin on the clothes to create a kind of portrait in negative of the 40-year-old Belgian designer? Is it art? Is it play?Īs Rocky says, their story-that of a rapper and a designer building bridges between their mediums-has historical precedents. A$AP Rocky, is, at 27, one of the most wildly electric artists of his generation and also one of the most passionately knowledgeable fashionheads around.
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