Nicolas Ghesquière by Michelle Williams for Interview Magazine

Interview’s March issue reveals a conversation between Louis Vuitton’s creative director, the ineffable Nicolas Ghesquière, and Michelle Williams, who covered Vuitton ads for several seasons before Ghesquière’s entry into the storied house.

The conversation is charming if not pure at best and opens with a question from Williams’ 9-year-old daughter, Matilda, who asks if Ghesquière always knew what he wanted to do, even when he was a kid. He goes on to relay an anecdote about his childhood in Loire Valley, France and praises his parents for having consistently championed the flights of his fancy.

Williams says something pointed about the way in which he designs: “With your collections, it feels like a convergence of so many decades and so many time periods and they’re pushed straight into the future. It doesn’t feel like there’s anybody that you’re following. The sense I had when I went to the show in Paris, I felt like I was watching memories that I never had.”

To which he replies with a note of relief that her words are exactly what he means to execute.

That’s kind of the thing about Ghesquière, isn’t it? He designs with such acute emotion, you can’t help but feel it when you’re looking at his clothes. This is something that is largely absent from New York, but then again, it’s not quite so prevalent anywhere. To design with the heart but acknowledge the eye is a feat fit for only an artist. Maybe it’s worth considering that what you feel for Ghesquière is actually this strange sensation — one that is familiar, like a déjà vu but can’t quite be traced back anywhere.

The man stands as a beacon of hope, truly, before fashion’s colony, which travels to Europe tonight for three more weeks, eager, no doubt, to feel.

Read the full interview here.