It’s passion, not common sense, that factors into the equation when they set their sites on an acquisition. “It’s so nice to rebuild the puzzle of the past,” says Benacer, a ’90s kid, rather poetically. “Most of the things I buy are older than me. Since I never lived those years, I’m living through the stories of what people tell me.” Appiolaza, for his part, was in London in 1997 when the Comme des Garçons “Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body” collection came out, of which they own several pieces. “This was unreachable for me. So now to be able to own these pieces… it’s very fulfilling to bring the past to today and be able to appreciate it in real life.”
The pair now also collect pieces from the labels where Appiolaza has worked over the course of his career, but the Franco Moschino originals, in particular, have special meaning now. “Because my starting there was very abrupt, I needed to be practical and resourceful to do something quickly,” he says. “The fact that there was an archive available, was, for me, bingo! My immediate thought was to just go and see the archive, and it remains very important as I transition from my first collection to the next one, and the next one—it’s a way of learning about Moschino going to the archives.”
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