Interview with Melinda Gloss

Archive October 2009

studiohomme: How do you dress these days?

Remi de Laquintane: I love combining designer wear with more established brands including a wool and cashmere trench coat from Melinda Gloss or a Roberto Collina jacket, a black Melinda Gloss knitwear polo neck worn with nothing underneath, a pair of Tremblay-Alvergne jeans, Lanvin shoes and a Hermès belt. For my accessories, I head for M058 in rue des Saint-Père, Paris.

Mathieu de Menonville: I’m not a shopaholic. I like good-quality clothes with a decent finish and a style which suits me well. Today I’m wearing a pair of Kitsune jeans (with nothing underneath), a greyish-blue Melinda Gloss cashmere pullover next to my skin, and a Jaeger Lecoultre 1948 watch. I’m a big fan of Peggy Huyn Kinh accessories, which I recently discovered at studiohomme.

sh: Which are your favorite brands?

RdeL: Lanvin, Yves Saint-Laurent and Haversack for their “deconstructed Japanese” style and Dries Van Noten for the colours.

MdeM: Tom Ford, Dior Homme, Kitsuné, knitwear from Balenciaga and Margiela, accessories from Hermès, and naturally Melinda Gloss…

sh: Where does the name Melinda Gloss come from?

MG: Melinda Gloss is a muse, a sexual combination of art and philosophy and maybe the hidden feminine side of every man! For me personally, this is a woman’s name synonymous with style, and a source of inspiration season after season.

sh: How would you define your style?

MG: Simple yet elaborately worked, poetic and erotic, conservative, close fitting, sensual, masculine and casual.

sh: Which men inspire you?

RdeL: Nietzsche, Wim Wenders for his concept of woman, Dali for his flair for provocation, Rimbaud for Verlaine, Friedrich Hölderlin and his Oeuvre poétique complète, Pie X, Dionysos, Beethoven and Allen Ginsberg for Howl.

MdeM: Nietzsche, Sacha Baron Cohen, Bukowski for his self-destruction, Larry Flint for his view of woman and Vladimir Putin.

sh: Which artists are you into right now?

MG: The visual artist Aurèle and his ‘Lost Dog’ at the Nathalie Gaillard Gallery, Alexandre and Joséphine de la Baume from the group ‘Sing Tank’ not to mention Julien Doré… all wear Melinda Gloss. As does the sculptor Marino di Teana, the composer Pierre Boulez and the porn film maker Marc Dorcel.