Issue23 (part3) May 2017

Could you briefly introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your
background that lead you to fashion designing?
For anyone that doesn’t know me yet, my name is Laura, I’m 22 years
old and I was born and raised in a nice little town outside Cologne,
Germany, but I have lived in the UK for under a year now. I started
designing in late summer of 2015, at that time I was in hospital for quite
a while and needed to do something creative, as I had to give up
photography whilst I was bed-bound. Since then designing and crafting
has become one of my passions and led me to create Good Night
Medusa.
Describe your designs for anyone who doesn’t know your work yet.
All of my designs that I publish under “Good Night Medusa” are based
either on harness-fashion, chokers or body jewellery, although I am
planning to do proper lingerie, but this will probably take me a few
months’ time. Anyway, harness-fashion is originally found in the
bondage area, although I really don’t identify my own creations with
that topic. I am working with beautiful lace, handmade, and my designs
are definitely more fragile, elegant and more about the female body
than about bondage itself.
What is your favourite material to work with?
To answer this question, I would actually like to introduce my newest
collection “New Cork” where I have started working with cork leather. I
love this material, especially when it comes to dyeing it. It’s so
interesting and just so impressive. I saw that documentary about a
vegan leather jacket made of cork a few years ago and from that day I
said to myself, that I will definitely work with this material one day –
even though I saw that documentary before I had started designing.
Which item of all your collections/designs is your favourite and most
significant for you?
That’s a hard question! I wore one of my cork chokers myself, even
though I don’t usually wear my own designs, so for me it must be one
of my non-fringy choker designs; probably my red and black cork
choker.
If you take a look at the editorial “Drunk’n Love” with Kim Witkowski,
there is a picture with the red and blue colour-gels and Kim has her
arms crossed – I think the piece she is wearing on that photo has to be
my favourite piece itself as a designer.
Anyway, my favourite collection is definitely one which combines lace
and chains, as these harnesses are just so prominent and work on their
own very well.
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