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PS How does pâté the cuisine relate to Pâté’s content?
FAQ Pâté is a murky meat, the origins of which are dubious. It’s really rich and fatty—just like Kuwait.
LB Pâté is expensive and elitist. It’s also a classic Western delicacy, not Arab.
FAQ It’s from all parts of the animal but you can’t make out which parts, that’s what’s so fascinating. You’re hit with a finished design or image and its inception is not easily decipherable. It is impossible to thoroughly document a nation’s style. With Pâté we wanted to encapsulate Kuwaiti taste: a thin slice of pâté!

PS Are you making a political statement by highlighting Kuwaiti taste in this context?
LB It’s hard to separate politics and fashion. Just think about Qaddafi’s incredible picture-frame brooch in relation to his dictatorship and the world makes more sense. I think Pâté does a good job presenting the relationship between style/culture/religion/politics without drawing any conclusions. It’s not too heavy on one thing which is nice. But there is a forced dichotomy presented between images and text. We paired the most unapologetic and self-assured text from Western writers with images of Kuwaiti culture. For example: “The feeling of being in harmony with fashion gives man a measure of security religion can never give him.” That is a quote from René Konig in A la Mode: On the Social Psychology of Fashion.