{"id":445095,"date":"2015-05-26T20:32:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T18:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.elorainweb.com\/?p=445095"},"modified":"2024-05-12T11:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T09:02:31","slug":"another-magazine-mai-2015-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredericsanchez.com\/fredericsanchez\/another-magazine-mai-2015-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AnOther Magazine – Mai 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
AnOther Magazine – Mai 2015Frederic Sanchez on Miu Miu’s Afrobeat Inspirations
\nMay 26, 2015The illustrateur sonore discusses collaborating with Mrs Prada and the afrobeat influences for Miu Miu A\/W15Text Olivia SingerThe soundtrack to a fashion shows is\u00a0an element that can completely transform the\u00a0atmosphere\u00a0of a collection, and\u00a0Frederic Sanchez\u00a0has spent his career as an illustrateur sonore collaborating with everyone from Margiela to Marc Jacobs to achieve maximum impact.\u00a0Since 1994, he has worked with Miuccia Prada \u2013 and for Miu Miu A\/W15, his\u00a0mash-up of Afrobeat-inspired eighties classics like Talking Heads and the B-52s,\u00a0combined with the faux advertisements that littered Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s first album, gave a brilliant insight into the thought behind the collection.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0I work in a very special way with [Mrs Prada],\u00a0\u00bb he explained. \u00ab\u00a0It\u2019s always very intimate. We speak a lot about very different things; what\u2019s happening in music, what\u2019s happening in the world in general. This season,\u00a0there was this idea of a collection that was autumn\/winter but with this idea of summer, and a certain idea of Africa \u2013 but Africa seen through the eyes of someone European. When we started talking about it, it reminded me of seeing that sort of thing happen in music at the beginning of the 80s.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

he\u00a0music of the early eighties \u2013 of Brian Eno and the B-52s, Talking Heads and David Byrne \u2013 was a time where Afrobeat and tropical influences were brilliantly combined with synthesisers. Eno and Byrne’s\u00a0trips across the ocean\u00a0saw a new and devoted\u00a0engagement to\u00a0Afrorock’n’roll, to\u00a0Fela Kuti and\u00a0Faycal Helawi, and resulted in what Frederic Joignot and Jean-Pierre Lentin described in Actuel 1981\u00a0as\u00a0a period that\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0sought fusion between the breaths of Africa and electronic technology.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

As Sanchez explains, this issue of Actuel featured\u00a0a cover with Brian Eno, David Byrne and Jon Hassell, \u00ab\u00a0and\u00a0the background was this piece called The Lighting Fields by Walter de Maria. It\u2019s this giant structure in the middle of the mountains in New Mexico, with these poles that attract lightning and they set it almost on fire. You can go to see it, and it\u2019s like seeing a living painting. So, I thought of those different elements \u2013 and then the Talking Heads record, Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, where David Byrne sampled different recordings from African radio, and made what became called world music. It became so trendy. And that was the idea of the show.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

Combined with Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s spoof advertisments for\u00a0Tempo Magazine and EMI, the soundtrack also gave a hearty nod to the consumerism of the 80s\u00a0(something clearly explored through the heavily-sparkling costume jewellery adorning the ears and necks of models). \u00ab\u00a0The African elements, combined with electronica, became like an urban schizophrenia. So then, we thought of Sigue Sigue Sputnik who had all that fake advertising in their records,\u00a0\u00bb explains Sanchez. \u00ab\u00a0And, you know the B-52s have that hairdo? I put the advertising for L’Oreal Shampoo right in the middle of their track. It’s kind of mental… like a manipulation.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

It is this wonderful sense of manipulation that arises throughout Sanchez’ work; we are taken on a strange yet brilliant journey through not only his mind, but the mind of the designers with whom he collaborates. \u00ab\u00a0Because of copyright issues, my work can’t appear online,\u00a0\u00bb he laughs, \u00ab\u00a0the rights would cost a fortune! But\u00a0it makes the show quite special and unique. Maybe it\u2019s the last thing that we can call haute couture\u2026\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

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Track Listing for Miu Miu A\/W15<\/p>\n

Mea Culpa by Brian Eno & David Byrne
\nAmerica Is Waiting by Brian Eno & David Byrne
\nThe Jezebel Spirit by Brian Eno & David Byrne
\nOne In A Lifetime by Talking Heads
\nBurning Down The House by Talking Heads
\nDeep Sleep by B-52s\u2028Advertisement Tempo Magazine by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
\nAdvertisement Network 21 by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
\nAdvertisement Pure Sex by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
\nAdvertisement The Sputnik corporation by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
\nAdvertisement ID Magazine by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
\nAdvertisement Studio Line From L’Or\u00e9al by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
\nAdvertisement EMI records by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
\nAdvertisement Love Missile F1-11 by Sigue Sigue Sputnik<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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