COLLECTION 2 - AVANT-GARDE

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TATA CHRISTIANE
The Berlin based
fashion label
Tata Christiane is one of the
most important labels here
in Germany. The designs are
very colorful and fashion forward.
Founded in 2007,
Tata Christiane is already
an award winning fashion
house. We had the pleasure
to shoot an exclusive editorial
with the new collection
on a sunny sunday in Berlin.
Photographer Pascale Jean
Louise did a wonderful job.
Starring two of our favorite
models: Jan and Blandina.
And we had a little chat
with the creative mind behind
Tata Christiane - Julie!
KALTBLUT: Congratulations to you, you just
won the “Best of ... fashion design” award at
MODEPALAST 2012! What does it feel like to
be an award winning designer? Is this your
first award?
TATA CHRISTIANE: Thank you! Actually the same
day I got a message that I was one of the winners
of the contest ìLe Blogî and that I got a place for
the next Salon Who’s next in Paris in July. It was
a pretty strange day then, a nice one.
KALTBLUT: Your label was founded in 2007
and since then you have an incredible career.
How did you come up with the idea to
do fashion? Did you study fashion design?
TATA CHRISTIANE: I studied classic literature
and philosophy for 5 years in Paris and one year
in Germany. At the same time, I trained myself
in sewing, especially at the beginning as a
wardrobe master for young theater companies
and by various training courses with stylists
and wardrobe masters in Paris. In 2007 I founded
the label Tata Christiane with Hanri Gabriel.
KALTBLUT: Your designs are very special.
Very colorful, sometimes it is a mix of fashion,
art and costume design. How would
you explain your work?
TATA CHRISTIANE: I have an ambiguous relation
to fashion. It states for me the relation I have
to the world and the way of expressing a certain
poetry of how to be in it. It is also immoderation
and spectacle, a vision of a world fed by
imagination and creative games, in relation to
present, past and forthcoming time. As many
things, it is about a piece of fiction that opens
a breach in the reality, questioning it or making
it smile. Fashion is for me also a crossing of the
various arts and ways of expression, in a playful
dynamic of life.
I consider fashion an element of fiction. I m really
influenced by the Story on the work of Phyllis
Galembo “In the realm of the spirit world,
the mask is more than mere facade. It is utterly
transformative. The man in the maskóand
is nearly always a manómay speaking in a different
voice, moving differently, behaving differently,
because he is a different being. The
mask is put on. The line between reality and
illusion, god and man, life and death blurs.
The masked man is not playing a role. He becomes
the role.” excerpt from the April issue
of National Geographic magazine. In my work, I
want to make this transformation happen.