BorntoRunway | Marilove Diary | Sissy Vian 茜茜·薇安

Italian stylist Sissy Vian began her career as fashion editor at Italian Vogue. Sissy is currently the Creative / Fashion director of the new Flair, a senior fashion editor for Vogue Japan and a freelance stylist for magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar and Chinese Vogue.

Sissy collaborates with many of the most important fashion photographers in the business including Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Willy Vanderperre, Ryan Mcginley, Juergen Teller, Peter Lindberg, Camilla Akrans, Josh Olins as well as many others. She has styled and consulted for a series of well- known fashion brands, a few examples are Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Hermes, Ungaro, Missoni, Max Mara, and Dior. Sissy currently lives between Milan and Paris.

1. Fashion and spirit, are they linked? Is fashion a momentary passage to be inspired by but not to be indulged, in order to give a deeper sense?

I think fashion is a movement of eternal becoming, a flux that captures pulsation, a vibration of the movement. It is strictly linked to the spirit of time; it’s the feast look in link with the spirit of the time.

2. Going back to your career, have you ever had the feeling of being submerged by the ritual and habit of doing things, of collecting, of drawing inspiration, of pairing, of reconnecting, as if part of a continuous return? Where would you place the source of an era called fashion? And what has it triggered in the beginning?

After many years of working in this field, I can say that fashion is an eternal return which is the same in its essence. As I said, it’s the spirit of time that it nurtures from, simply changing its ingredient in an ever-changing game. By looking at the past, fashion invents its future. There’s never anything that is the same but that’s also its strength. This is at least from a creative standpoint, which is an essential component for fashion. I think it would be very banal and sad to look at fashion simply as putting clothing together: its meaning is deeper and larger, it’s born with us and it evolves with us.

3. Nowadays we talk a lot about style. What is style? Absorbing clothing and mood based on the moment? Or is it a world inside of us that we project outside of us?

Style is an obsolete word nowadays. Thanks to the internet, we always see actresses and It girls graciously dress up, but to have a sense of style is more complex and often transcends the fashion of the moment. Not always fashion and style can tango; to have a personal style means it’s unique and is a special way of putting things together. It means to dress with our own style and shine with our own light regardless of what we wear, and using fashion by coupling it with our own personality. Yes, I would say style is strictly connected to our own style.

4. Designer and stylist, where’s the meeting point between these two professions?

Every designer has his own inspiration, his own muse. The stylist interprets the looks by the designer and gives a different interpretation each time. This is for me the meeting point between the two.

Sissy Vian styles Karlie Kloss, Milla Jovovich, Hilary Rhoda and Jessica Miller for the covers of the new Flair magazine, Winter 2013

1.时尚和心灵是否相通？相比于获得更深层次的审美，时尚是不是一种用来激发灵感却不能沉溺其中的短暂信息？

我认为时尚是永恒变化着的运动，是一种捕捉脉搏的流量，一种运动的震颤。它与时间的灵魂紧密相连；它是与时间灵魂休戚相关的视觉盛宴。

2.回溯你的职业生涯，你曾经有没有过被做事的礼节和成规所湮没的感觉，比如在做收集，寻找灵感，搭配和重新连接的时候，似乎化身为一种持续回归的一部分？你认为哪里是所谓时尚纪元的发源地？又是什么创造了它的开始？

在这个领域工作了这么多年之后，我可以说时尚是一种永恒的回归，从本质上是一样的。就像我说的，它是时间的灵魂，在变动不居的游戏中不断地改变着自身的元素。通过回顾过去，时尚创造着自己的未来，从来都不会出现一模一样的时尚事物，这也是它的力量源泉。时尚最起码是从一个创意的起点开始的，这个起点也是时尚的本质成分。仅仅认为时尚就是拼凑衣服这样的看法是迂腐且令人伤心的，因为它有更加深远的意义，它和我们与生俱来，并和我们共同发展。

3.现在我们经常把风格挂在嘴边，那么什么是风格呢？是根据时刻去体验着装与情绪？还是我们内心世界的外在投射呢？

风格在今天已经是一个陈旧的词语了。感谢互联网，使我们时常能看到女明星和时尚女孩打扮得优美雅致，但是拥有一种风格是更加复杂且超出时尚范畴的。时尚和格调不意味着雷同；拥有个人风格意味着是有着独一无二的搭配衣物的特殊方法，而且能够用时尚来配合我们自己的个性。的确，我会说风格和我们的个人风格是紧密相连的。

4.设计师和造型师，他们之间的交集是什么？

每一个设计师都有自己的灵感和缪斯之神。造型师通过设计师来解读衣着，并在不同时间给出不同解释。对我来说这就是二者的交集。

Stylist: Sissy Vian ,Photographer: Ryan McGinley