考研英語(yǔ)閱讀:皮爾卡丹：時(shí)尚風(fēng)格轉(zhuǎn)變太快

Fashion Changes Too Fast: Pierre Cardin

皮爾卡丹：時(shí)尚風(fēng)格轉(zhuǎn)變太快

Today's fashion designers change styles much too fast, partly due to twice-yearly collections, making it harder to create couture that lasts for years, designer Pierre Cardin said on Tuesday.

服裝設(shè)計(jì)師皮爾·卡丹周二說(shuō)，現(xiàn)在的服裝推陳出新的速度太快了。一年兩次的時(shí)裝發(fā)布會(huì)使得設(shè)計(jì)師很難設(shè)計(jì)出經(jīng)典的服裝款式。

In Tokyo for a show co-sponsored by a Japanese department store, the 88-year-old doyen of French fashion also said that it is now much harder for designers than when he first started in the business roughly 60 years ago.

皮爾·卡丹是在東京參加由某日本百貨商場(chǎng)共同贊助的時(shí)裝秀時(shí)發(fā)表上述觀點(diǎn)的。這位 88 歲的法國(guó)時(shí)裝界元老還說(shuō)，現(xiàn)在當(dāng)個(gè)服裝設(shè)計(jì)師要比他 60年前剛踏進(jìn)這一行時(shí)難得多。

“After the war, there were very few designers. Now there are so many designers around the world, in every country.

他在新聞發(fā)布會(huì)上說(shuō)： “戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)結(jié)束那會(huì)兒，服裝設(shè)計(jì)師緊缺。而現(xiàn)在滿世界都是服裝設(shè)計(jì)師。

It is impossible to change the fashions every year, every six months,” he told a news conference.

根本不可能每年甚至每六個(gè)月就轉(zhuǎn)變一次時(shí)裝風(fēng)格。 ”

“There are lots of designs that are very beautiful, crazy, fantastic on the eyes, but they are not making fashion for tomorrow.

“現(xiàn)在的很多服裝設(shè)計(jì)都很漂亮，創(chuàng)意絕倫，吸引眼球，但這些服裝不是面向未來(lái)設(shè)計(jì)的。

You can see it anywhere... but four or five years later, no fashion.”

你到處都可以看見(jiàn)它們，然而四五年過(guò)后，這些衣服就不再時(shí)尚。 ”

Cardin also said that when he launched his own label in 1950 he was told that what he was doing was “impossible” and that only belief in himself and obsession carried him through.

卡丹還說(shuō)，當(dāng)他在1950年開(kāi)創(chuàng)自己的品牌時(shí)，人們都說(shuō)他在做一件“不可能成功的事情” ，是他對(duì)自己的信念和對(duì)服裝設(shè)計(jì)的癡迷才幫助他走到了今天。

“At the time I was told that trying to make what I did was like trying to walk on the moon-impossible.

他說(shuō)： “那時(shí)候別人告訴我，我想要做到的事情就好比是月球漫步，是不可能的。

It was my strategy to believe that one day a man goes up,” he said. “My work was like an addiction. That’ s why I’ ve been able to do it for so long.”

但我相信，一個(gè)人總有一天會(huì)熬出頭。 ”“我癡迷于我的工作，這也是我為什么能夠堅(jiān)持做這么久的原因。 ”

Cardin has become a household name on products around the world from couture clothing to alarm clocks.

皮爾·卡丹現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)成為全世界家喻戶曉的名字，他所經(jīng)營(yíng)的產(chǎn)品從時(shí)裝到鬧鐘，一應(yīng)俱全。

He was the first Western couturier to turn to Japan as a high fashion market in the late 1950s and later China in 1975.

他也是首個(gè)開(kāi)辟日本和中國(guó)高級(jí)時(shí)裝市場(chǎng)的西方設(shè)計(jì)師，在20世紀(jì)50年代末和1975年分別進(jìn)軍日本和中國(guó)。

 

 

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