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Steel Notes Magazine
October 2016
MBW:
This is all mind boggling ... I am so overly impressed by all of this
because I have always been fascinated by the fashion industry and there
you are front and center ... I also found something else fascinating here in
your pages called PressBook.com ... What is this all about ???
DS:
In 2000 I started with a friend a new internet portal under the name
PressBook.com. Pressbook.com is a showcase of communication, presentations and works of any individual or company to represent that individual or company. Any person, or company, desiring to expand needs to
communicate. They may do this via a pressbook. Pressbooks may include
works, advertisements, catalogues, press releases, editorials, company
financial data, prospectus, individuals resumes etc...
MBW:
Would you care to tell our Steel Notes Magazine readers and the World
about your own brand schillerundgoethe ???
DS:
In December 2007, after 23 years, I resigned from John Galliano in order to launch my own brand,"schillerundgoethe" to the international market.
The basic idea is based on the context to connect the past and
the future of the fashion concerning the philosophical basic position of the 18th century up to the 21st century. The 18th century, as
well as the 19th and 20th centuries, still have a big influence on our
everyday life, which appears in the art, the fashion and the media.
These centuries, along with their authors and philosophers, have
left a lasting impression and have no equal.
MBW:
When would you say your fancy turned towards this dramatic
chapter in fashion ???
DS:
I could not avoid this influence during the school years and was
particularly impressed by this time. A strong affection for Goethe
and Schiller was built up, which in the storm, impulsive times or
genius times, a current of the German literature, in the epoch of
the clarification, which have gone from about 1767 to about 1785,
primarily from young men, 20 to 30 year old authors, new ways.
MBW:
I see … You were highly inspired by the astounding bravado
found in the works of these authors … I find that to be overwhelm-
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