Everyday we begin again. MAFF is a love of music, art, and fashion. Dedicated to those who push themselves and the industry forward.
What stuck with us in Shanghai was how comfortable Zhang An was with not explaining his work. We're used to artists who want to give you a frame to read them through. He gave us photographs and silence — and that was the whole answer. A prodigious photographer living in the world of the abstract.
"The cities don't repeat themselves. Each one demanded a new question."
Jonathan Anderson and Bella Freud discuss perfection and how his own feeling of imperfection is a driver to create beauty and romance for others; how he finds his references in art for the film costumes he has created; and how attractive and sexy it is when someone is able to draw.
Bella Freud asked Jonathan Anderson about imperfection and he said it's the engine. That's the thing we keep coming back to — the people we film don't make perfect work. They make work that's alive.