Maier's goal as a designer is to strip away all unnecessary parts until a dress or a shirt or a bag or a watch has been reduced to its functional essence--until it achieves what he calls "a certain nothingness."

new yorker january 3 2011

Slowie is fucking greedy.

"Fuck you"

"Fuck you!"

"I love you."

"I love you too."

"I like to cut away the useless shit that comes with a person."

"You like gooey centers."

"I like the most incredibly functioning part of a relationship. I want the most challenging inspirational part only."

"Only?"

"Only. Everything else has to go. Up in smoke. Cut the fuck away so I can see."

"You sound like a race car driver."

"I'm in a little hurry."

"Do you have time to buy shoes?"

"I always have time to buy shoes."

"Ok."

"I cannot operate unless I focus more on the jewel of the relationship, the direct purpose of our connection, then we walk in that direction."

"What does that mean?"

"It means that part of the relationship will expand my ass. That part will catapult me to the real reason behind this mortal coil. It doesn't mean people around me will understand."

"They will see all of these wrappers around you, as you greedily consume the best part of their ass."

"Yes the best part. Regardless of what it looks like to others. Fuck 'em."

"Ok."

"Regardless I will have something authentic in every relationship and that will make my sleep better."

"You can use an Ambien."

"No."

"You're greedy."

"Yes."

"I meant where did your sandwich go? You ate the shit out of that."

"Fuck you."

Lanvin is a villain.

"I'm a villain."

"What?"

"Huh?"

"Who?"

"I don't need an audience. I don't have an audience. I have gotten rid of all of my friends."

"I am still here because I am very curious and I still hold out hope that you will forget not to have sex with me."

"I love your consistency."

"That and my fuckin' scruples is all I have."

"Because my life is not a newspaper anymore, where I can tailor make it so that I am always a hero. But I have discovered some important things about myself. I have been able to take in more."

"This morning I posted online that today I executed the most perfect bowel movement than I have in the last five years. I was very satisfied with not only the length of one my actual yam, but also the comment field as well. It was robust and healthy. I do it for the comments."

"I think we can put a dark line through scruples now."

"Of course."

"Because my life experiences are not being distributed to other people anymore I am able to experience 100% of them. They are not watered down anymore by my need to be a hero, by my need to be accepted."

"What?"

"If I am traveling, dating and as you pointed out so beautifully--shitting, without and audience the experience becomes all mine, allowing me to get what I need to get from it without looking to see if it is making other people feel more comfortable with their life. Even though it won't."

"Ha. You're telling me that no one will know if you travel to Rome."

"I'm saying I don't have the desire to tell anyone. That's a little different don't you think?"

"I have no idea. I am a hero."

"You are but you lack life's nutrients."

"I can honestly say that no ones ever told me that my life is malnourished."

"A anti hero at that."

Peace over cost. your ability to sustain the peace in your mind should take precedent over everything.

Slowie is in love with fear.

"I'm in love with emotions."

"Is it on par with my anchovy fetish."

"Food as a fetish is a waste."

"Right, of course."

"I have spent the last 4 years picking men that provides me with a comfortable emotion that I can distract myself with."

"Can't say I completely understand."

"I start with a few preferences physically, but after that I just need them to evoke an emotion and then keep me suspended in it for the length of our coupling."

"Any emotion?"

"Come on, you know it has to be one that I have already agreed with."

"Oh right, of course, what came over me."

"It has to be an emotion that I am completely familiar with from a past relationship that primarily pissed me off but has become a trend of familiarity. One that generates the most fear without making me too uncomfortable, one that keeps me away from from any growth that will allow me to see a feeling I have never experienced before."

"You are looking for someone who can give you years of sustained fear?"

"Unwaivering."

"Right, of course. What is the benefit of this?"

"I'm just lazy."

"You don't fear fear?"

"No. I'm just afraid of love."

"Of course, right."