{"id":445086,"date":"2015-03-25T20:23:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.elorainweb.com\/?p=445086"},"modified":"2024-05-12T11:03:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T09:03:24","slug":"frederic-sanchez-style-com-march-2015-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredericsanchez.com\/fredericsanchez\/frederic-sanchez-style-com-march-2015-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Sanchez-Style.com-March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nFr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Sanchez – Style.com – March 2015<\/p>\n

Fashion Month Behind the Music: A Conversation with Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Sanchez Style.com<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the most aurally stupendous soundtracks to ever bend these ears at a fashion thing,\u201d is how our own Tim Blanks described Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Sanchez\u2019s score for the Thomas Tait Fall 2015 show. The mix included \u201cHoly Land Explosion\u201d by Francis Kuipers, \u201cLe Saint Guidon\u201d by Monolithe Noir, and \u201cRed Sex\u201d by Vessel\u2014a strange combination of experimental rhythms, electronica, and grinding industrial beats if there ever was one.<\/p>\n

The first thing to know about Sanchez is that he\u2019s highly organized and dedicated, with his thousands of albums categorized to the nth detail, from engineer to art director to producer\u2014something his 25 show clients this season, from Alexander Wang and Calvin Klein in New York to Comme des Gar\u00e7ons and Miu Miu in Paris, surely appreciate. But more than just a good set of ears and a hyper-organized discography, the thing that keeps brands like Prada interested in him is his undying sense of fantasy. \u201cSometimes I get ideas like I don\u2019t know how,\u201d he began over the phone. \u201cIt\u2019s like a moment of life in a way, and it\u2019s what I bring to the people I work for. When I arrive in front of the person I work with\u2014and you really need to know the person really well\u2014I bring all my thoughts and what I\u2019ve dreamt about and my ideas from the last two months. For example, with the Prada soundtrack, I had listened to this artist called Alice Coltrane, and I was listening to that for two months and I brought that to Prada. I had the same process with Thomas Tait and with all my clients: I listened to his story and I mixed it with my own story and my own fantasy in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among Sanchez\u2019s Fall 2015 fantasies were several that were covered in our reviews. Velvet Underground\u2019s \u201cVenus in Furs\u201d got first mention at Calvin Klein; the thumping sounds he crafted for Thomas Tait came up in London; and his Fantasia samples at Prada, \u201cMy Funny Valentine\u201d covers at Jil Sander, use of Max Richter\u2019s Blue Notebooks at Comme des Gar\u00e7ons, and quirky ad mash-ups at Miu Miu cemented him as the aural experimenter to watch\u2014or listen to\u2014this season. While such prowess might allude to a systematic approach to creating a soundtrack, Sanchez\u2019s methods are much more surreal in their efforts, emphasizing a holistic method over a pragmatic one. \u201cTo be very precise, it takes me three or four appointments and maybe 40 hours [to create a soundtrack],\u201d he explained of the process as a whole, adding, \u201cBut what takes longer is to get the idea of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The few hard-set rules he sticks to are: Don\u2019t use music that\u2019s been in other shows and don\u2019t overdo it. He explains his process of mixing music for a soundtrack as something akin to mixing perfumes, combining the strange with the familiar in unexpected ways. \u201cIt\u2019s a little like when you smell perfume and you don\u2019t know really what it is, but at the same time you can understand where some elements come from and have some mental images that it calls to mind. That\u2019s always the way I\u2019m working.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a deep sense of the personal in his work. \u201cI like the idea of [the soundtrack] being made-to-measure,\u201d he explained. \u201cI think that fashion is so, in a way, mainstream. Everybody is talking about fashion and all that, and maybe the show soundtrack is the thing that gets special-er and more exclusive,\u201d he said with a laugh, in reference to the fact that many of his soundtracks are not heard outside of the show environments they accompany. \u201cIt makes it a little bit like what was haute couture in a certain time\u2014it feeds the fantasy of the people who don\u2019t have access to this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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