Joseph Altuzarra
Joseph Altuzarra
Joseph Altuzarra is a luxury women's ready-to-wear clothing designer. He launched his brand, Altuzarra, in New York in 2008. His brand is influenced by his multicultural upbringing and his international education in fashion...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDesigner
CountryFrance
showing terms
A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin.
alex designers expectation generation good honestly jason partying people persona robert
I honestly think that with our generation - Alex Wang, Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Christian Cota, Robert Geller - there's a different expectation of what our behavior should be. People expect designers to be good businesspeople and PR people, and I don't think partying is a part of that persona the way it used to be.
clothes designers hopefully hype people saving saying
We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes. Hopefully we make beautiful clothes with a message, but in the end it's for people to wear. I think that the hype of fashion has come down a level.
ballet teach
Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.
sexy grandmother careers
I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and dont want to look like grandmothers.
stronger messages faster
You can build a brand very fast now, especially with bloggers and how fast images can get out - the message just goes out faster and stronger than ever before.
ivory-tower people towers
That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.