Fashion people love to eat shit like radish sprout salad with bulgur sprinkled with gomasio and algae, so that’s what I ordered when I sat down with Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld biographer Alicia Drake and Kate Moss biographer Francoise-Marie Santucci. You know, to put them at ease. But these ladies are constantly on guard because, as they explained, fashion is a sea with a hundred sharks swimming inside…

VICE: What interests me is to compare your point of views about fashion, depending on your various fields of specialization.

Alicia Drake: Françoise-Marie Santucci: Will your book be translated into English? Alicia Drake: Françoise-Marie Santucci: I would like to know what happened after the publication of your books. I know that Lagerfeld was annoyed by the publication of yours, Alicia. Did you talk to him? Has there been a trial?

Alicia Drake: But it was quite risky to write this book because you knew that Lagerfeld has always refused to speak about his childhood, and he doesn’t like when people search his archives, his photos.
The scandal is only due to the Lagerfeld’s paranoia…
Françoise-Marie Santucci: Libération Following the publication of Kate Moss, did you finally meet her? Has publishing books rather than articles about fashion allowed you greater freedom of writing? Alicia Drake: Françoise-Marie Santucci: Alicia Drake: But we can’t deny that trends exist!

Françoise-Marie Santucci: maisons de couture Alicia Drake: Françoise-Marie Santucci: Alicia Drake: Françoise-Marie Santucci: There is a paragraph in your book where you talk about the emptiness in her eyes, and that’s what would make her so fascinating. It’s a bit strange and disturbing to see this empty sight, like a dead-alive person.

Alicia Drake: Nylon Françoise-Marie Santucci: Alicia Drake: And you’re currently working on another subject? Françoise-Marie Santucci: Alicia Drake: Françoise-Marie Santucci: Alicia Drake: Françoise-Marie Santucci: Alicia Drake: bistros Father Goriot Françoise-Marie Santucci: Alicia Drake: Françoise-Marie Santucci: Alicia Drake: Françoise-Marie Santucci: Designers should be great and revolutionize fashion every season.

Alicia Drake: Françoise-Marie Santucci: Alicia Drake: Françoise-Marie Santucci: Alicia Drake: Françoise-Marie Santucci: cliché Alicia Drake: And Paris? Is it still the capital of fashion? It’s so French Françoise-Marie Santucci: