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Punk Aristocrats 7 Questions With D.A. Wallach of Chester French

1. Please describe your state of mind when you are creating something.
I try to just remove myself from whatever is going on in my life in that moment and clear my mind of any distractions. There's a sort of focus that you can get into where time starts moving much faster and you can perfect the thing you're working on for hours and hours without noticing any exhaustion.

2. How much of your creative ability do you think is innate? Or is your creativity a skill that you have developed?
I think for me most of my creative abilities are learned. I don't have musical or other ideas rushing through my mind at all times, but when I dedicate myself to developing ideas or deliberately creating an inspiring environment, they come more easily now than when I started.

3. How do you go about evaluating your creative product?
The first stage is just judging whether I like the product as a listener, viewer, or consumer. In the case of our band's music, my second question is always what Max, my partner, thinks about it, because he is very discerning and finds the flaws very quickly. Then once something passes both of those tests I like to "test" stuff out on lots of different people of different ages and tastes.

4. Can you see your finished product before you start it?
Once it gets to a certain point, yes, because I have a good amount of experience recording and can fill in some of the blanks. But I don't start with a full picture in my mind.

5. How important is education to your creative process?
Very important. There are so many different ways to educate oneself, and I'm thankful that I have almost constant opportunities to be around talented and interesting people, who educate me through osmosis. I also find that "cross-training" my mind sharpens my abilities in many different realms. Reading seems to help music making and vice verse, for example. The different areas of our brains are cross-wired to such an extent that I suspect there's a good biological basis for my experience, as well.

6. What kind of things do you do to get your "creative juices" flowing?
Get rid of distractions. When it comes to coming up with melodies or lyrics, which is primarily what I do as a songwriter, I like to put on the music loud and pace around singing out loud until I stumble upon good ideas.

7. What made you decide to follow a creative career choice (though possibly risky) rather than something more stable?
Getting paid to make music with your friends is hard to turn-down. I love the freedom that it permits to explore many different areas of society, and it's an incredible way to connect with huge numbers of people. The instability is certainly a downside, but as this recession has shown, stability can be illusory in many different fields.

Thanks to D.A. Wallach for his participation and creative savvy. He's a gentleman and a scholar.

D.A. Wallach and Max Drummey are Star Trak Records famous pop music duo known as Chester French. D.A. and Max are currently working on their next full length album with plans for a 2010 release.

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Comme des Garçons design visionary Rei Kawakubo

“I don't feel too excited about fashion today. People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else.”

Since she launched her Comme des Garçons (French for “like the boys”) fashion brand 41 years ago, Rei Kawakubo has always played by her own rules. Fascinated by challenging conventional standards of beauty, she’s reconstructed “hybrid” clothes, sewn the left half of a jacket onto the right half of a different jacket and designed asymmetrical dresses made from her own vintage scarves—and that was all just in her last women’s presentation. It’s never just about creating something to wear, but rather expressing an idea.

The 68-year-old, whose conceptual outlook has inspired everyone from Azzedine Alaïa to John Galliano and who still often clocks 12-hour days, seven days a week, is famous for saying she became a designer “to make a living.” While that may be true, Kawakubo has also immeasurably changed the greater fashion landscape. In the early ’90s, when collaborations were about as likely as getting Linda Evangelista out of bed for less than $10,000, she asked Junya Watanabe to design his own line under the Comme des Garçons label. In 2004, she opened London’s still wildly innovative Dover Street Market. Since then, Tokyo-based Kawakubo has opened 17 stand-alone boutiques, tested mass retail with an H&M collection that caused a near riot in Japan and currently has 120 shops-within-shops around the world. Next March, a seven-story Dover Street Market will open in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district. Naturally, she’s the architect and interior decorator. A woman of puritanical conviction, as evident in her strictly black uniform and severe bob, Kawakubo thinks it’s important for designers to ditch the attitude and just get on with the dog and pony show.

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