Who I am ? I would like to know it ( laugh). Alexandre G. Reis, I was born in january,16th 1957 in Setubal ( portugal) from a mother who was a sewer and a father who was a firefighter.

A quite difficult childhood, separated from my parents because of their divorce, I was placed to my godfather who was the boss of a knitwear company in lisbon ( Knitwear Do-Carmo Guedes company). I spent a part of my childhood to work in it. ( 1963/1968) without going to school.

We are the initiators of the Hiatus ready- to- wear research department.We intervene for individuals or professionals throughout the idea and the conception of male and fmale garments dedicated to the ready-to-wear market, that is to say garments that must be designed precisely in order to be producible in series.

We are both fashion designers,model makers,pattern makers, and this brings a completeability and an adapted study to each profiles.

 

Interviewed : Anne-Caroline HUGUENIN, creator of skirts for men

Interviewer : Jérôme

Date :  june 4th,2007