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In his column, Donatien Grau speaks to prominent thinkers and creatives about fashion and its connections to contemporary creativity

  • The Mask, 2011, by Nate Lowman

    An Intellectual Fashion | Nate Lowman

    Nate Lowman is an iconic figure in the younger New York art scene. A leading painter and sculptor, he has been associated with his friends Dan Colen and Dash Snow, before paving his own creative way...

  • Iké Udé

    An Intellectual Fashion | Iké Udé

    Iké Udé is one of New York’s most famous social figures. As an artist, he is acclaimed for his unique talent in photographing elegance. His work is included in the collections of many institutions, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim...

  • Thierry Mugler and Didier Grumbach at the Palace in 1980

    An Intellectual Fashion | Didier Grumbach, Chairman of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture

    Didier Grumbach is one of the most discreet, yet powerful and prestigious figures in the world of fashion...

  • Lea T by Giovanna Battaglia and Pierpaolo Ferrari

    An Intellectual Fashion | Cecilia Dean

    Cecilia Dean’s career is an extraordinary example of the evolution from modeling to editing: she was one of the most prominent models in the 1980s, posing for the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Peter Lindbergh and Mario Testino...

  • Leonard left Lucy and lame ass friends for the very last time

    An Intellectual Fashion | Aaron Rose

    For the last two decades, Aaron Rose has played a major role in shaping contemporary culture. A writer, curator, filmmaker, artist, gallerist, publisher, impresario: he has expressed his talent in all available formats of our time...

  • Liz Goldwyn

    An Intellectual Fashion | Liz Goldwyn

    Liz Goldwyn’s passion for clothing was exposed as early as in her late teens, when she participated in the foundation of the fashion department at Sotheby’s New York...

  • Wayne Koestenbaum

    An Intellectual Fashion | Wayne Koestenbaum, Poet & Cultural Critic

    The latest subject in Donatien Grau's column, Wayne Koestenbaum is a leading voice amongst American poets and cultural critics...

  • © Matthew Stone

    An Intellectual Fashion | Matthew Stone

    Matthew Stone’s multifaceted work addresses culture as a whole...

  • Olivier Theyskens

    An Intellectual Fashion | Olivier Theyskens

    From the very beginning, Olivier Theyskens has been acknowledged as one of the most idiosyncratic voices of contemporary fashion design...

  • Thom Browne A/W09 Pitti Uomo presentation

    An Intellectual Fashion | Thom Browne

    The latest subject in Donatien Grau's column is Thom Browne, a name that is widely acnkowledged as synonymous with sartorial refinment and performative daringness...

  • Design by Nanna van Blaaderen

    An Intellectual Fashion | Lidewij Edelkoort

    Lidewij Edelkoort is probably the world’s most famous trend-forecaster. Her work encompasses advising brands in fashion and the commercial world, such as Gucci, Estée Lauder, Lancôme or L’Oréal...

  • Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

    An Intellectual Fashion | Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

    Inez van Lamsweerde’s and Vinoodh Matadin’s work is probably one of the most humanist and refined to be seen today. Their art of portraiture encompasses every field of photography, from art to advertisement, from exhibitions to books...