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If, like us, you're fans of Riccardo Tisci's work at Givenchy, then you have his mother to thank. In a recent interview in the Financial Times, the designer revealed that he only decided to take the role in order to help his family members, who were in financial difficulty at the time:

“I wasn’t interested,” says Tisci now. “Not at all. I wasn’t going to say no. But the week before, my mother called me and said to me, ‘I am going to sell our house, because your sisters are struggling, they’re having children, they need the money, I will go to a retirement home.’ I heard that, and it was like a knife in my heart. I felt such a failure, that my mother had to sell the house of my father whom I don’t remember. And then I went to Paris, and they showed me a contract with all these zeros on it, and it was like help from God. I thought, ‘If I sign this, my mother will never have to worry again.’ So I signed it. And the first thing I did was pay off the house, and set aside enough for my family. It was the best present I’ve ever been able to give.”

The Guardian are at the centre of strong criticism at the moment, after Hedi Slimane's people firmly discredited a recent piece that ran in the newspaper, which suggested that the photographer would reject a job offer at Dior. According to Slimane, the interview was taken before the whole John Galliano saga, so they deliberately postponed publishing the piece in order to cash in on the controversy.

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