In anticipation of the upcoming ICFF and Manu's big debut, we asked Emanuela Frattini Magnusson, designer of the newly founded luxury leathergoods line, ten questions about design, inspiration, and...Beyonce? Enjoy, and be sure to check out www.manumanu.com.
1. Who is your inspiration?
1. Who is your inspiration?
Designing is an act of optimism, believing that it is possible to improve on something. To be inspired I have to be in a certain state of mind, of laying myself open to possibilities that appear. Inspiration can come from a person, from a place or an object, but mostly for me it happens when I travel, when I go outside my area of normal existence. Without actively looking for anything, truly seeing and experiencing new things stays in your subconscious and will surface at the right time.
2. Who is your favorite designer? Why?
There is so much amazing talent around, difficult to say. I would have to choose both Ettore Sottsass and Tibor Kalman who have been constant role models, for their genuine curiosity and lack of jadedness to the very end of their lives.
3. Where is your favorite place on earth?
Somewhere warm and on the ocean, Capri, Lamu, the Seychelles , on the right early summer morning the beach of East Hampton
4. What words do you try to live by?
Integrity, respect, fairness
5. If you could choose a different career, what would it be?
I almost went to medical school, I would probably be a pediatrician or a neurologist with a very cool looking office
6. What is one thing you would like to do before you die?
See the rest of the world and finish reading “Gödel, Escher and Bach” by Daniel Hofstadter
7. What is the most challenging thing you have ever done?
Raise two happy, independent and very decent human beings
8. What is your favorite book?
Demian by Hermann Hesse
9. What is currently playing on your iPod?
Foo Fighters, Beyonce, Sting, Vasco Rossi
10. What do you wish you had invented?
The Nespresso concept, brilliant. Great product, branding, distribution and execution. …. And Post It notes!
Manu's leather bracelets in spring shades. The bracelets will be on sale at Manu's debut event to benefit design-oriented charities.
And we couldn't resist asking a few more:
11. What is a skill that you wish you possessed?
To be a fantastic guitar player, classic and rock
12. What quality do you most admire in others?
Balance
13. What is your greatest strength?
Focus
14. What is your greatest fault?
Lack of
15. If a movie were made of your life, who would play you?
Jodie Foster
16. What's your favorite color?
It varies depending on many factors: object, geography, season, purpose.
Being in Miami vs New York
Having said all this, right now I love vibrant purple blue.
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