Olivier Saillard

portrait by GIANNI OPRANDI

rebel without a brand

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
portraits by GIANNI OPRANDI
performance photography by VINCENT LAPPARTIENT

 

After a brilliant and rapid succession of posts at French cultural institutions as a fashion historian and curator, Olivier Saillard is now the director of the Palais Galliera (the Musée de la Mode) in Paris. He has curated the most important fashion exhibitions in Paris, among them last year’s Azzedine Alaïa retrospective. Parallel to this official responsibility, he has been developing a personal artistic œuvre for years, regularly presenting performances on the state of the fashion world. These two activities have a common thread: Olivier Saillard’s personal conviction that fashion is a true artistic endeavor with historical importance, which has a specific vocabulary he wants to underline.

 

OLIVIER ZAHM — Is it true that you created your own fashion magazine at the age…