When Miuccia Prada or Marc Jacobs wants just the right music—or, in the case of Miu Miu Fall 2010, just the right mix of movie dialogue—to accompany their clothes down the runway, they turn, like many in the fashion industry, to Frederic Sanchez. Here, the Paris-based sound designer highlights some of his most memorable collaborations of the last decade, from Air France's in-flight grooves to that "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" moment at Marc.
"I played one track from the German artist Thomas Brinkmann. The title was 'Groovin' and it was just a very simple rhythm growing up into a very sexy crescendo. This was Jil Sander's last show, just 25 beautiful silhouettes—the quintessence of minimalism. At that moment you could really feel the end of the nineties."
Prada, Spring 2001
"The [show] announced a new start in fashion. I played the first album of a new artist at that time, Peaches:
The Teaches of Peaches. After all these years of minimalism, it was the return of super-stylism, very much like it was in the eighties, but with a twenty-first-century approach—exactly like Peaches' music."
Helmut Lang, Fall 2003
"I did a remix of the Louise Bourgeois songs
C'est le murmure de l'eau qui chante. It was very important for me, because afterwards I met Louise Bourgeois twice and we decided to make a record from this remix with a beautiful cover with one of her pictures."
Ready for Takeoff
"In 2004, I redesigned the sound inside Air France's fleet. It was the first plane company to commission that and I thought it was so contemporary. Very much in the continuation of Brian Eno's
Music for Airports."
France's fleet. It was the first plane company to commission that and I thought it was so contemporary. Very much in the continuation of Brian Eno's Music for Airports."
"My other great collaboration was with Hermès. I started working with this iconic French company with Martin Margiela, I think in the late nineties, and carried on with Jean Paul Gaultier. In 2006, they asked me to produce the music for a weekly radio program in Japan called
L'air de Paris (very Marcel Duchamp) for a Tokyo station called J-Wave."
