Inspiration from a Legendary Photographer

When he was about 18 years old, Silvio Campara looked at an episode from MTV’s show Dedicated to David Lachapelle, in which the surrealistic photographer Alexander McQueen and his long-time employee Isabella Blow were featured. In one of the most famous pictures from the shoot, whose original print is currently in the CEO of the Golden Goose, the couple stands in front of a burning castle. As McQueen explains in the interview: "The castle is the establishment and I burned down the establishment."

A Personal Connection to the Art

It is also what Campara did in his own way. "I think before you start on a way, you have to see or experience something to imagine it," he says, sitting in the executive meeting room of the Golden Goose headquarters in Milan. "The Golden Manifesto" is supple on a wall in massive golden letters, while all the chairs carry the words "Dream Maker" on the back.