Interview with Seth Aaron – fashion designer from the Project “Runway: All Stars”
Aaron likes to combine very unsual things – feature organic fabrics and those made from recyclable plastic bottles. Solar World was a sponsor for his last Portland Fashion Week collection in 2010. The last Aaron’s show was held on Portland Fashion Week in October 2011.
He is also cooperating with the Earthtec clothing company to create a sustainable clothing line.
In 2013, Henderson decided to take a part in Project Runway: All Stars (season 3). In 2014, the desiger become its winner.
If you want to get acquainted with the extra modern stylist’s creative way of thinking and works more closely – he has his own website.
The designer told about his strategy for winning!
Interviewer: How did “All Stars” compare to your season of the regular “Project Runway” (Season 7)?
Seth Aaron Henderson: First time around it was all new and all kind of shocking. This time it was all business. That is why I went there. It was about business.
Interviewer: And what about the other designers, did they affect you at all?
Seth Aaron Henderson: When you show up for “All Stars” it's different because you look at every single person as competition. There are no weak links. Where in the regular season after the first challenge you are like, 'Okay, well three quarters of these people I'm not going to worry about.' This one I worried about everyone.
Interviewer: Did that change your strategy?
Seth Aaron Henderson: My final collection – it was already in my head before I even left to do the show. That is what I was doing. Meaning I am going to go, come out of the gate, show them something, then I am going to go through the weeks and at the end, this is what I'm going to do. So I stuck to that plan. I did not care about winning any of the challenges in between. The last one is the only one that matters.
Interviewer: Touché. Though you did win one of the challenges—the one before the finale, for Milly.
Seth Aaron Henderson: The Milly one was great. That was fun for me. I know her label well so it was really not a far stretch. I was designing for myself. And I was really excited to contribute to Save the Garment Center.
Interviewer: So the Milly challenge lined up with your strategy: to do your own thing and just get to the finale.
Seth Aaron Henderson: I design off emotion and things, music. I do not design off objects. When you give me a bug and say 'This is your inspiration,' that is not really for me. For those [challenges] I said, 'I'm just going to do whatever and hopefully I make it to the next week.' That was kind of the philosophy. Slow and steady wins the race.
Interviewer: Well, it worked! And last question. Its awards season for Hollywood, with the Golden Globes this past Sunday, if you could design for any celebrity who would it be?
Seth Aaron Henderson: Alan Cumming. And Gwyneth Paltrow.
Interview materials are taken from: http://www.marieclaire.com/
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