says Marigay McKee, Chief Merchant
kely to register on fashion’s radar than Bhutan is an NCP car park in Hermes Kelly HandbagsSoho, where the Chapmans have their central London studio. The Chapmans aren’t strangers to fashion – they have visions of mountain monsters. “It was a very vague suggestion that we might like to put some of our imagery on some of their imagery,” says Dinos Chapman, vaguely. Incidentally, Dinos is singular – on the day our interview was scheduled, Jake was in hospital following an altercation with a floor that left his arm in stitches and a sling. Although he did commandeer a Chapmans-print Vuitton scarf to serve the duty. But I digress. “Kim said, ‘We like your monstrous animals from your prints’,” continues Dinos. l Party (SNP) which is campaigning for a yes vote in the independence referendum, has already said he would keep the UK pound as currency is the country left the union. He said it would be similar to the Isle of Man having its own pound, pegged to UK sterling, which has lower borrowing costs than the British government.the Harrods business, with shoppers seeking luxury,
exclusivity and an exceptional shopping experience,” says Marigay McKee, Chief Merchant of Harrods, a store that tripled their Louis Vuitton menswear sales space earlier this year. The fact that more luxury, in turn demands more money, doesn’t appear to be an issue. “We do this,” says Jones, plucking at the Chapman-print jersey T-shirt he’s wearing (a special one-off for hermes birkin 22Dover Street Market Ginza). “Which is an easy price-point thing, to buy. But we thought it would be much more interesting to make it dressy and evening. That real super-luxe lifestyle. In a speech, Chancellor George Osborne claimed Scottish families would be £2,000 worse off if their nation split from Britain.
“So it was very obvious what we should do… I don’t think Kim would have asked us if he didn’t have an idea of what he was going to get.”collaborated with Lee Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney – and Vuitton has worked with everyone from Takashi Murakami to Daniel Buren to Richard Prince, albeit all across the womenswear collections. “That’s the really great thing, the fact we can actually do hermes birkin 35 stuff like that,” says Jones. “I’ve known Jake for a long, long time and I really, really like him, and I love their work. Scary cute creatures are my favourite thing, and the McDonald’s-y stuff.”