Talk about doing it all! Milan Vukmirovic has his hands in a little of everything fashion/design related. I definitely look up to people who can multitask like this and I want to be in this position one day – traveling the world and creating on multiple platforms.
Vukmirovic is the creative force behind the Italian luxury house Trussardi (Those amazing camo bags below that you’ve seen across the blogosphere). Already in his second year with the leather brand, he’s brought his cool, refined aesthetic to menswear, luggage, and even a line of home furnishings. (His women’s collection for the label debuted this fall.) But, Vukmirovic is also a fashion photographer, who has shot campaigns for top brands like Armani, Hugo Boss, Lacoste, and Trussardi itself. He’s made use of his photo skills for his other career, as the editor of the quarterly magazine he launched in 2005, L’Officiel Hommes. And, in case anyone missed the man who once helped establish the Parisian store Colette as the premiere place to be caught shopping, Vukmirovic opened his own store, The Webster, (along with co-owners Laure Heriard Dubreuil and Frederic Dechnik) in Miami earlier this year. It’s not much of a surprise to learn that Vukmirovic designed the interior.
This is a great quote on creatives from an interview with Milan and Aaron Young: “’Sometimes businesspeople don’t understand that we are very sensible people. When we work, we work all the time because everything we do is part of our creative process. It doesn’t matter if it’s an idea or an entire project. You can’t even quantify the work in terms of days or hours—it’s all the time.’ When you said that, I thought, Finally someone understands. Being creative means everything you see, everybody you talk to, every movie, every magazine, every person in the street, every window of a store—you look at everything all the time because you’re astonished.”
-N.
