Kitsuné

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Portrait by Emanuele Fontanesi

interview by CAROLINE GAIMARI

Gildas Loaëc and Masaya Kuroki met in Paris almost 10 years ago, when Gildas was working at the record store Street Sound and Masaya was working at the Jean Nouvel architectural agency. They met again in Tokyo while working with Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto on the anime movie Interstella 5555, and decided after this collaboration to start their fashion and music label, Kitsuné.

CAROLINE GAIMARI — I saw that the graffiti artist André did an installation in the boutique on rue de Richelieu.
GILDAS LOAËC — Yes, we have two boutiques on rue de Richelieu in Paris. André tagged a big Monsieur A while the main boutique was under construction, but it was stolen during the night. The thieves cut out the border of the front window where he’d drawn his Monsieur A. We came…