{"id":47368,"date":"2025-09-28T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/47368\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:25:08","slug":"celebrity-interior-designer-david-flack-on-the-t-shirts-he-loves-and-his-favourite-style-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/47368\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity interior designer David Flack on the T-shirts he loves, and his favourite style era"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each week, we quiz a prominent person about their style and the inspiration behind it. Ahead, interior designer David Flack.<\/p>\n

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David Flack says his 20s were a fun time to work in fashion.Credit: Anson Smart<\/p>\n

How would you describe your style? The way I dress is less complex than my interiors. I\u2019m very daring with materials and colour combinations in my work, whereas my personal style is quite pared back. I have recently started wearing colour again after my husband, Jason, told me I need to stop wearing black all the time. I love it \u2013 wearing colour makes you feel good.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the oldest thing in your wardrobe? I wear a lot of vintage. I\u2019ve got a great \u201970s leather jacket I bought in Brooklyn, New York. It\u2019s a beautiful tobacco colour and a bit cowboy.<\/p>\n

And the most recent addition? A pair of Balenciaga \u201c3XL\u201d runners<\/a> with a massive sole.<\/p>\n

What are the three essential items in your wardrobe? Levi\u2019s boot-cut jeans, a bomber jacket, and my handcrafted Japanese Matsuda sunglasses, which look like little goggles.<\/p>\n

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What would you wear \u2026 on a first date? On my first date with my husband, I wore tailored pants, an oversized black Acne button-down shirt, Acne trench coat and Bottega Veneta \u201cTire\u201d boots with a green sole. He\u2019s usually taller than me, but I was taller than him in those boots, so I think he was annoyed. \u2026 on a plane? Black everything: oversized cotton pants; a [$20] Uniqlo \u201cAIRism\u201d tee, because they breathe well; slip-on Salomon runners; a Norse Projects bomber jacket that doesn\u2019t crease and looks smart enough to wear to a meeting straight off the plane. \u2026 on the red carpet? A beautiful Prada suit and Prada dress shoe with a chunky sole.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favourite fashion era? I grew up in the \u201990s and I love seeing all the references now \u2013 it\u2019s a form of nostalgia. The fashion was stripped-back and more casual than today.<\/p>\n

Who are your favourite fashion designers? I like Raf Simons for his sense of colour. His designs are very clean and there\u2019s always beauty in the simple but significant details. And JW Anderson \u2013 there\u2019s always a surprise, some little quirk or nuance. It\u2019s playful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each week, we quiz a prominent person about their style and the inspiration behind it. Ahead, interior designer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-47368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}