A.P.C.'s Jean Touitou Speaks on Working With Kanye and How Fashion Will Kill Hip-Hop

See what A.P.C.'s founder says about Kanye's "kingdom of dopeness."

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Style.com dropped an incredible interview with A.P.C. founder Jean Touitou, and it is almost as chock full o' verbal gems as Kanye West's interview with the New York Times. The Frenchman, who's collaboration came out yesterday and promptly broke the Internet and hypebeasts' bank accounts, revealed what it was like to work with Kanye, and whether this project is a one-time thing or will be ongoing. He also reveals how Kanye was adamant about re-designing and re-working every item in the eight-piece collab so that it could fit into the magical-sounding "kingdom of dopeness." For more outrageous quotes from this interview about the collaboration that won't stop giving, here is Jean Touitou Speaking on Working With Kanye and How Fashion Will Kill Hip-Hop.

[via Style.com]

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"When you deal with a guy who wants to redesign just about anything so it could fit [into the] kingdom of dopeness, it takes some time to just sit and say, 'Okay, agreed, but let’s get start on something limited, and we’ll see.'"

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"He could want a piece to be baggy and skinny at the same time… [but] oh well, you just find a way."

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"The devil was in theoretical discussion, not in details."

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"...once the devil of endless possibility was taken care of, we knew exactly what to do."

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"Production hasn’t been so limited—mind you, sir, we are a small company. I am not anticipating anything. I never do."

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"Fashion killed rock and roll. Fashion killed contemporary art, and turned it vulgar. And if hip-hop artists are not careful it will also kill hip-hop."

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"I am not into the celebrity thing. The only celebrities who impress me are writers. I follow no god, no celeb, no master, no myth."

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