Between us down there Vanity Project is joined by a real-life Angel. This is the Spring Summer 24 crescendo, and we’re finishing with one night in Paris. Angel Robertson offers insight into the exquisite pain of designing, and the slightly less exquisite agony of a bug infestation in the beds of the city of love. 

We talk Balenciaga and being someone else, Vaquera and doing yourself, and Rick Owens and the perfect mourning attire. How do you put persona in a tchotchke? And isn’t the exquisite pain of correctly pronouncing trompe l’oeil better when you can just ask someone else to do it for you?

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