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ed: What did you do last Sunday?
km: Hang around – it was my first day off. Later in the afternoon I went to visit the LE CORBUSIER-exhibition.
ed: How important is fashion to you and what’s your favorite piece of clothing?
km: Fashion is simply my passion. My favorite piece of clothing: one of my denims.
ed: What book or film would you recommend and why?
km: The movie YVES KLEIN – LA REVOLUTION BLEUE by Francois Levy-Kuentz. Klein was an innovator – a poet and a natural freak.
ed: You have the chance to initiate a cultural revolution. What will you do?
km: Free education for everybody on the planet.
ed: What is your favorite travel destination and what hotel/resort should everyone visit at least once in their lifetime?
km: I have been to Sao Paulo recently – it is a very impressive state of cultural mix. The range and quality of the architecture is surprising and brilliant.
ed: What was in your opinion the biggest ever faux pas in architecture / design / art / fashion?
km: Only a chosen few can fully master various disciplines at once. Most people merely scratch on the surface and create gruesome monstrosities. There are far to few Carlo Mollinos in this world, to mention just one example, who are able to play the entire range of notes, or rather: to be effortlessly apt and at the same time to be able to accomplish great things.
ed: Who/what has influenced you the most?
km: Curiosity and desire in equal measure.
ed: How would you define “cultural identity”?
km: The delimitation of an individual from others and the other with the purpose of individual experience and perception.
ed: When is an idea a “good” idea?
km: This is in fact only realized later. A feeling alone is not always a reliable guide.
ed: And last but not least: you are entitled to a single question. What would you ask?
km: There are far too many questions to pick out only one.
When speaking of design, Kostas says it is he person who wears the clothes that interests him the most.
As the son of greek parents who arrived in West Germany from East Germany as a teenager, Murkidis is used to beeing "strange".
Upon arrival he jumped head over heals into Pop culture, embrassing it like an old friend.
In his fashion, skin tones are an ever recurring theme. He says there are infinitely many facets of them, which is what makes it so interesting for him to work with.
