As the industry mourns the loss of Long Nguyen, we’re reflecting on what made the industry vet such a force.
, and the designers expressed their sorrow this week as news of Long’s death spread.
His view was that fashion was a reflection of the world and it wouldn’t do to look away. “He always did see things from an alternative perspective,” said Davis Church, creative director of Revolve and a close friend of Long’s since the 1980s. “He was someone who always felt that you need to know where we came from in order to understand where we are.”
Beyond his remarkable career in fashion, anyone fortunate enough to visit Long’s family’s long-abandoned apartment on the Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, or to grab Vietnamese food where he did all the ordering, knew he had led a colorful and somewhat mysterious life. Long was a Vietnamese immigrant who casually recalled being helicoptered out of Saigon as the city fell in 1975.
Shortly before that, Long had invited two friends and me to join him at a Boulevard Saint-Germain apartment owned for many years by his family. Long had recently begun staying there during Paris fashion weeks. The sprawling apartment had an elevator that opened into its foyer, and encompassed, as best as I remember, four bedrooms. We sat on the parquet floor of the vast but nearly unfurnished living room, whose columns of french doors grandly overlooked the leafy boulevard.
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