The Music Makers: 10 Magazine meets Richie Hawtin

With musical roots in Detroit’s ’90s techno scene, DJ, producer and composer Hawtin is one of electronic music’s most influential figures.

03 Apr 2025

"With any creative process, whether its fashion, music, art or design, there’s always an exploration. Maybe you know the destination, [but] you don’t know exactly which way you’re going to take to get there, so it has to be very fluid and spontaneous"

Aside from the clothes, the first thing you remember from a legendary fashion show is its soundtrack. Inside 10 Magazine Issue 74, they spotlight 10 musicians and sound engineers who are adept in masterminding catwalk scores that have gone on to become certified fashion moments in their own right. Next up, Richie Hawtin.

With musical roots in Detroit’s ’90s techno scene, DJ, producer and composer Hawtin is one of electronic music’s most influential figures. The British-born Canadian-raised bleep king has a decades-long friendship with Raf Simons (they met at a 10-day techno festival in Ghent), collaborating with him on show music for Calvin Klein and, more recently, Prada.

Richie wears PRADA; portrait by LETIZIA GUEL, art direction and styling by GIANLUCA GAGLIARDI, courtesy of T MAGAZINE

Richie wears PRADA; portrait by SIMA DEHGANI

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