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'Raf' - NY Times profile on Raf Simons: http://www.nytimes.c...gewanted=1&_r=0

Interview by Craig Garret: http://www.papercoffin.com/writing/articles/simons.html

It wasn’t a life of privilege or wealth, but it was one of absolute love and dignity. “I am superproud of my parents—my mother was a cleaning lady, and my father was a night watchman in the army,” says Simons. “And now I stand in this world, and yeah, it’s a bourgeois environment, in a house that’s seen in France as the most important position in fashion, along with Chanel. But I don’t care about that. What I find amazing is that it’s a beautiful house where I can make clothes to make women happy. I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.”
vogue.com: http://www.vogue.com...mons-at-dior/#1