When Demna sent the CV to Balenciaga and was rejected. Moral? Never give up

Dreams are only dreams, if you let them sleep in the drawer: she knows it well Demnformer creative director of Balenciaga (ready for the new debut at the reins of Gucci), who in a recent interview has relying from his archives the famous e-mail with which It initially rejected by the maison who would later direct – with extraordinary success – for ten years. Why how is it said? Whoever lasts it wins it.

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From the e-mail, published on Instagram by the @Demnagram account, every detail of the episode emerges. He ran the year 2007, Demna had recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and was twenty -six years old (today he has forty -four). He had a candidate to work as an intern in the famous fashion house: “I had supported an interview for an internship in the male Department of the Style Office and fortunately I was refused,” said Gucci’s neo -director creative to Vogue. And no, it is not surprising if he defines it a fortune: “My professional path would have been completely different if I had been accepted!”.

As, on May 17, 2007, Demna was rejected: “We carefully evaluated his candidacy and, after an accortion consideration, on this occasion we decided not to carry it on.” Far, however, to discourage the young grass designer, who with resilience and motivation managed to get other opportunities to get his bones in Maison Margiela and Louis Vuitton before co-founding Vetements in 2014 (with his brother Gurav) and subsequently becoming a creative director of Balenciaga in 2015.

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Who would have said it, to the very young Demna of 2007, that Only eight years later he would have directed the fashion house from which he had been refused as an intern. Fortune? Not really, because it is said that luck comes when the preparation meets the opportunity. Demna had a vision and cultivated it with passion, commitment and resilience. Why – repetita iuvant – Dreams are only dreams, if you let them sleep in the drawer.