Sleeves Magazine June 2016 | Page 76

tries to get fashion to its social borders, he always looks for new ways to find questions which haven’t been asked so far. What does gender mean to us, what is art or how do people get to know who they are... fashion as a kind of art. Currently we aren't interested in target groups. Our collections are based on creativity, provocation and the search of the forbidden. Kind of breaking borders and establishing new rules that define the DNA of HOERTINGERSOLAK. CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS? Our creative process is about having deep conversations with the things that surround us, collecting moods everywhere we go and find new silhouettes, fabrics and aesthetics. There is no A to Z way in our work. the whole process is driven by new ideas and inspirations. You could describe it as a constantly changing process. WHO ARE YOUR FAVORITE DESIGNERS? John Galliano, Miuccia Prada, Alessandro Michele. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE THE FUTURE TO HOLD FOR HOERTINGERSOLAK? DO YOU DESIGN WITH A CERTAIN TYPE OF PERSON IN MIND? The way how we work doesn’t need a certain type of person. Right now we see First of all it would be great that more people get to know our work and understand the way we’re working. Right now we try to show what a creative potential there is in our veins. That makes our work hard to understand while it forces the costar to overthink its current ideals. That is something hard to communicate cause you need an open minded audience which has a creative view on society and art. Sleeves Magazine