![]() ![]() Peter Marino: It's the old question, "Oh, why do they all go to you?" Steve, would you go to a knee doctor who had done two knee operations if you need an operation or one who had done 300 successfully? Who would you go to? That's why they come to me. ![]() Steve Kroft: How did you get them to all come to you? Louis Vuitton store designed by Peter Marino Architect. Every store is unique, and each one distills the essence and the look of the company it was built for: a sense of travel and luxury for Louis Vuitton, the timeless classic look for Chanel. His work lines the most conspicuous avenues and boulevards of the world. Fendi, if you just saw the Fendi on 57th and Madison.įor decades, Marino has been the architect of choice for nearly all of the top fashion designers and luxury brands and is widely credited with reimagining the use of retail space, moving away from boxy department stores and into elegant boutiques. ![]() We're opening a new one in London in December. Peter Marino: Dior, Hublot, Zegna- we do Zegna world-wide. Steve Kroft: So you've got Chanel up here. Toledano is used to working with big egos and difficult people, but says Marino is not one of them. They have collaborated on dozens of Dior boutiques all over the world. We watched this meeting with Sidney Toledano, the CEO of Christian Dior, who is one of Marino's biggest clients and biggest fans. Those partnerships can produce some unusual optics. They went, the way you look, it doesn't really matter. Like, you better tell me what I'm supposed to say and do. I remember when I was meeting certain royal families if I had to behave a certain way. Peter Marino: If they need to be treated a different way, no one's told me. Steve Kroft: Do they need to be treated a different way? Steve Kroft: I mean, it's fair to say you work with some of the richest people in the world, right? He says it was built for the family that controls Samsung. It's an interesting building 'cause the entire inside is rough concrete. These are trapezoids- like they fell to space. Peter Marino: It's all-white Greek marble. BOONTHESHOP, a multi-brand luxury shopping center in Seoul, South Korea. Like BOONTHESHOP, a multi-brand luxury shopping center that takes up two downtown blocks in Seoul, South Korea. And the firm that bears his name would not be occupying two floors and 16,000 square feet of some of the most-expensive office space in New York, which is furnished with museum-quality artwork all from Marino's private collection: paintings and sculpture, modern art and antiquities all juxtaposed in perfect harmony. His work would not be regularly featured in Architectural Digest and other glossy magazines. ![]() If the getup was simply a publicity gimmick, Marino would have disappeared decades ago. "If you want to come up with a really original design idea and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else." If you want to come up with a really original design idea and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. Thinking out-of-the-box goes along with dressing out-of-the-box and living out-of-the-box. Peter Marino: I like more the fact that I like to think out-of-the-box. Steve Kroft: One of your good friends said that you like the shock value, like you like the fact that people say "What's with him?" There is no question that Marino's signature look has made him one of a handful of living architects actually recognized by the media. The arts and fashion worlds have always had a high tolerance for eccentricity: take Tom Wolfe and his white suits, Karl Lagerfeld's dark glasses and fingerless gloves, and Lady Gaga. Peter Marino regularly commutes between New York and his home on Long Island by motorcycle. Had to get my license, and you gotta keep your license up-to-date. Steve Kroft: Do you still know calculus and trig and all of that stuff? ![]()
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