Isabel Marant Hates Sexy Girls, Says 'Ideal Woman Is Serge Gainsbourg'

Designer Isabel Marant's brief LOVE magazine interview has leaked, and the purveyor of last season's $1,295 "It Shoe" and this season's Kate Moss ads is apparently a self-described anti-consumerist. She said, "It's difficult for me being a designer in an industry I don't like. When I design a collection I find myself thinking, 'Why do we need new clothes?' I never think about the fashion people...They are not my concern."

She also laughed at the word "sexy," remarking, "Big breasts and lips. No! I hate those girls. I hate famous women. My ideal woman is Serge Gainsbourg. Not that he was a woman."

Comments

[bentax645]

05:40 PM on 09/04/2010

You may like this bit of Synchronicity:

http://www.benjaminkanarekblog.com/2010/09/02/prediction-corduroy-spot-on/

[PMe]

02:34 PM on 08/26/2010

she meant Charlotte, right?
Serge is dead and used to look like this:

http://www.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://www.blackmailmag.com/public/Image/Serge%2520Gainsbourg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.blackmailmag.com/dblog/articolo.asp%3Farticolo%3D496&h=599&w=400&sz=79&tbnid=ikQ9sPHOVJQTrM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=90&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dserge%2Bgainsbourg&zoom=1&hl=it&usg=__6jkKSZ7Kkm6aV50lLFI5cRslDXo=&sa=X&ei=oLN2TPSvCo_IswakxqDrBQ&ved=0CCwQ9QEwAw

[Jennifer Hagan]

10:07 PM on 09/02/2010

He was sexy when he was young though. But not very handsome. I think she is saying that a woman needs to have sex appeal in a way that isn't so obvious. She meant Serge. Reread the end of the article.

[vain jane]

03:22 AM on 08/25/2010

Mission accomplished then! She does look like Serge.

[zest]

09:28 PM on 08/24/2010

Who do billionaires marry; that's who should be models.

[Aitch5]

05:33 PM on 08/24/2010

I would love to see her line and to hire models who are unsexy and older.

[Hansy Peguero]

02:40 PM on 08/24/2010

A little bit envious I would say.

[ptrgamb]

02:08 PM on 08/24/2010

Serge ....why not Charlotte Gainsbourg?

[Jennifer Hagan]

10:09 PM on 09/02/2010

Because Charlotte is pretty. Serge was not but was sexy. Well, at least he was when he was young.

[danusgram]

01:26 PM on 08/24/2010

Alert black models dont bother to go there for a go see apparently she hates women with big lips and don't forget all black women DO NOT BUY HER LINE..boycott it...there goes your chance with the first lady by the way...stay locked in your world you ridiculous woman.

[IsyFleur]

01:52 PM on 08/24/2010

By "Big breasts and lips" she means women as portrayed and photo-shopped in women's magazines, and especially famous women who have had their breasts enlarged and lips botoxed to match those consumer-society driven stereotypes. Nothing to do with ethnic background :)

[danusgram]

02:04 PM on 08/24/2010

Sorry it has all to do with ethnic background people of color have the lips and those models are emulating those lips.

[IsyFleur]

01:55 PM on 08/24/2010

Most of what she designs is dull-colored and rather masculine looking to kind of efface rather than enhance femininity.