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Wall Paper Magazine
I love designers who challenge the ideas of culture, society, and what is suppose to be. I came across a fresh passionate designer who as soon as I saw his work, it made me melt. George Bezhanishvili, a Georgian designer based in the beautiful Vienna is an upcoming men’s, women’s, and accessories designer who has great talent beyond measures.
I love George Bezhanishvilli especially for his men’s collections. He breaks down masculinity with his shapes and forms and challenges what is masculine to society. The colors he uses just accentuate a man’s body in such the right ways. Although his collection for men are flamboyantly dashing you can still see the very beau essence in his work. I am pretty sure that he will infatuate many others like he did with me me in his upcoming collections. Check out my interview with George below.
Photo Shoji Fujii
What sparked your interest in design?
GEORGE BEZHANISHVILI: I was interested in design from my deep childhood, and I guess I’m still addicted by that. It’s an endless passion for me. After finishing a collection, you just want to start on a new one. It’s a process of getting empty and getting filled up again and again.
What is your process in finding an inspiration for your collections?
GEORGE BEZHANISHVILI: Life, music, people and all those feelings around that.
How do you feel about the fashion culture, life, and world in Vienna versus the world?
GEORGE BEZHANISHVILI: It’s a very small fashion scene in Vienna, but there are some very interesting designers. I like the city, it feels very comfortable, but sometimes it gets too sad for me; so im fighting every time against it and expressing it through my collections. I like that Vienna is showing more colors and fresh effects. I like that too in Vienna.
What is your aesthetic as a designer? What’s your specialty?
GEORGE BEZHANISHVILI: I don’t know if I’m so far to say whats my specialty. But for sure, I still trust in real human beauty and elegance, and in the spirit of clothes which can change a total look of a person. I want my collections to be a fairytale for real life and t at least when wearing them you can feel free from that dramatic and heavy surroundings of that world.
Your work for men can be flamboyant and unconventional for men’s fashion, is this a form of challenging men’s masculinity? Who is the man of George Bezhanishvill clothing?
GEORGE BEZHANISHVILI: My menswear collections are inspired by men looks of men like Devendra Banhart, Dash Snow, Vincent Cassel. But I think every man can risk and even not risk. A man just needs to feel it to wear it, because every garment looks different on every person, so it needs to be yours to look good on you.
Where do you see your clothing for your next A/W collection?
GEORGE BEZHANISHVILI: I hope on a streets of different cities , worn by fabulous men!
What trends and styles do you see in men’s fashion coming in this Fall?
GEORGE BEZHANISHVILI: Very experimental sleeves, flash one color looks; like orange and red and for sure fur coats.
Photo by Lukas White Gansterer
