Mark Ronson & Gucci Shoes

Dexie Wharton — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:07:32 +0000

Mark Ronson and Gucci joined forces to create new series of boat shoes that would just knock your socks off. I’m a fan of Ronson so I’m familiar with his “style” but he impressed me even more with what he created for Gucci. The shoes feature a style of minimalistic, classic yet with a modern vibe which speaks really well of Ronson’s “trademark”. I am just in awe of all the colors. It makes me smile every time I see them.

GQ.com is quite impressed too so they conducted an interview with Mark Ronson just yah know, see what’s up and what his plans are in the future. An excerpt of the interview is posted below.

So I want to talk about your sneaker collaboration with Gucci. What was your initial reaction when they called?

Well, there’s a really pervasive spirit of entrepreneurship in music right now. As soon as you’re a success you’re supposed to use that as a platform to get your clothing line going or your car detail shop or whatever it is. But I don’t think I’m good enough at music yet to be distracting myself by branching out. That idea of, “Now that I’ve made it as a musician I’m going to put out my own line of shoes…” I think it corrupts a bit. I don’t know that Quincy Jones or George Martin would’ve had the success they had if, half the time—or even a tenth of the time—they were concentrating their attention on polo shirts.

But then again, Nike does all these editions, but you don’t really expect Gucci to come knocking. So when they got in touch I thought it would be worth at least going to Milan to meet [creative director] Frida Giannini. Then, while I was there, I saw the men’s show and fell in love with the line. So ultimately I thought it made sense. And I liked how genuinely into music Frida was. She has a collection of like 8,000 records at home and we talked about music being a component of what we’re doing.

Read the whole Q & A interview at GQ.com. Try no to miss the bit on Kanye West’s collaboration with Louis Vuitton.

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DJ Mark Ronson’s 10 Essentials

Dexie Wharton — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:03:57 +0000

Are you curious what DJ Mark Ronson considers his 10 Most Essentials? Well here they are.

Mark Ronson

1. Omnichord — a battery operated musical equipment the ’80s.
2. Lagavulin — a drink
3. Band Of Outsiders Shirts — he buys at least 6 shirts every season
4. Duran Duran — he recently worked with them and created 12 songs.
5. The Sunday New York Times – it’s his favorite in life
6. Electric Lady Studios — built by Jimi Hendrix. Ronson goes there for inspiration from time to time.
7. Wiktor Sadowski Movie Posters – he owns the “Zelig”
8. The iTunes Store — he likes how he can download anything and wherever.
9. The Cock and Bottle — a pub in London that he visits frequently.
10. Tsar Cologne — someone gave him a free bottle years ago and the rest is history.

Read a more comprehensive detail about Mark Ronson’s 10 Essentials at Men Style.

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