“Before the Internet came to fashion, my show reviews were very literal,” says Mouzat. “I was writing — not very well, in retrospect — about the fabrics, the shapes, et cetera. Then, it all changed. Specialised websites appeared, pictures were published instantly. I couldn’t compete against that.” She started to think about a new way to cover fashion that did not duplicate, but rather complemented the proliferation of fashion imagery. “On the Internet, we see textile, colours, clothes, but rarely what’s around that,” she recalls. “So, I decided I was going to almost stop talking about the clothes themselves and focus on the environment. It became my signature.” Influenced by Marguerite Duras, Pascal Quignard, Milan Kundera and Philip Roth, she developed what she calls a “to-the-bone style.” “I worked on losing adjectives to make my text more nervous, incisive, a shorter breath. Rhythm became important, sound as well. I wanted to go towards more simplicity. It’s actually more difficult than always adding stuff,” she explains. “Maybe it had something to do with my job at a daily newspaper. I needed to be quick. Quickness demands concision and concision demands an economy of words.”
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:22:48 +0000
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