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December 08, 2006
Material Boy Interview
by Andrew Blyszak
After leaving the sunny shores of Australia only 1.5 years ago I ventured to the big smoke of London to establish a pr company.
Last I heard the infamous Australian fashion market was slumping to the lowest of lows producing main stream, sellable, American influenced clothing and designs. Prior to my awakening departure I worked closely with a young designer from the East coast (so American) whom was based in my home town of Melbourne.
Running into Mic at the cool kid hang out Babble restaurant, in the Summer of 2005, where he worked a part time job to fund his clothing label, I announced that "oh my god I love skinny jeans, where did you get those?" astonighingly not taken back by my quite obvious camp performance, cool and not so calm I found out that this low crutch, skinny jeaned, very handsome pale character was in fact the designer behind the bold creation.
We set up a meeting and formal introduction where thereafter Mic and I began working together.
Three progressively successful seasons and a whole lot of flamboyant colored skinny jeans Material Boy comes to London with an edge to an edge on directional design.
A. Hi Mic, long time.
How's things? Where are you living now?
M: I'm living between Melbourne and Bali these days. It's a perfect balance, Sin city v's tropo island.
A: I received the SS06/07 collection samples which I was most impressed with, I can see through quality and quantity you have come an amazingly long way for a young designer, how did you do it?
M: Being an untrained designer surrounded and influenced by a lot of graduates and excellence I have really had to work extra hard to learn fast.
A: What's your take on rivalry market sharers - are there any?
M: I don't really have any but I seem to be the target of a few, I isolate myself so I think im producing pretty organic, original designs.
A: On the personal side, taking over the world is generally the driving force behind companies and globalizing a brand, do you see Material Boy taking over the world?
M: I'm not so much interested in taking over, im interested in getting better at what I do and want to start working with good people, with that approach, yeah im totally going to take over!
A: You made reference to Super Mario world and Nintendo characters in your last email to me, are game console characters a fantasy of yours?
M: Oh I just like child like things.
A: Black and white palettes are generally the way for most designers - judging by the sheer richness in colour through your collections do you think black is a way forward or back for you?
M: Black would be a step into the unknown. It may be the next step for me?
A: Give me your opinion on the new rave wave, is this where Material boy fits in today's dense consumer fashion market?
M: Yeah it think it totally fits in there, I think it's really exciting with what is going inside the clubs. It's full of people expressing and liberating themselves. Its really amazing to see this same sort of thing going on in all the different cities of the world.
A: You mentioned material boy is for the "outside of the square type person who want to individually express themselves" - what do think of vintage clothes?
M: I don't have any vintage pieces in my wardrobe. I think the men's silhouette has changed too much.
A: Is Material Boy a style or fad?
M: If it's a fad it will last but personally I think it's a style, you've seen it's progress
A: Do you only wear Material Boy?
M: Yes, apart from accessories.
Links
http://www.materialboy.com.au
Andrew Blyszak
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