miguel adrover

“MEETEAST” COLLECTION, FALL/WINTER 2001 “THESURREALREALWORLD”<br />COLLECTION, ANNUAL PRESENTATION 2004 “THESURREALREALWORLD”<br />COLLECTION, ANNUAL PRESENTATION 2004

SELF-PERFORMED FASHION IN MAJORCA

A RETROSPECTIVE OF HIS 1999-2012 COLLECTIONS

interview

by OLIVIER ZAHM

self-portraits by MIGUEL ADROVER

OLIVIER ZAHM — When did you move back to Majorca?

MIGUEL ADROVER — When I left New York, in December 2005, so it’s been 20 years. When I moved here, I got an offer from Tommy Hilfiger to work as their creative director. I got many offers from many brands, but I refused all of them. And I realized it wasn’t really what I was looking for. At the same time, there was a German company called Hessnatur, a pioneer of ecological clothing, so I dropped Tommy and went with them. It was a really conservative, mail-order catalog company based outside of Frankfurt. It had already…