Photos: Magdalena Piotrowski
Art installation? Fashion happening? Theatre? We were waiting with bated breath to see what Annelie Augustin and Odely Teboul had come up with this time for the presentation of their A/W collection 2012/13. You could be pretty sure it wasn't going to be a run-of-the-mill catwalk show.
The unfinished-looking KOW gallery in Brunnenstrasse served as the stage for the mystic show installation by the Franco-German fashion label Augustin Teboul. Over two stories, twelve models were arrayed, moving according to a choreography, restrained in their movement. They wore floor-length dresses of transparent silk and muslin, skintight leather trousers and teddies with crotcheted and pearl-embroidered details. Just as with the debut collection last summer, the A/W collection 2012/13 is completely black and dominated by contrasts: romantic and sophisticated as well as raw and edgy.
Suddenly dry ice sets in and Bonnie Tyler's 'Holding Out For A Hero' booms through the metre-high rooms – it would seem that Augustin Teboul has a penchant for eighties' hits, because in the summer it was 'Dreams are my Reality' from La Boum-The Party, the teenie film, as its main theme. Performance artist Ariane Andereggen turns up In the middle of the audience and offers a modern take on the Greek myth of Ariadne's thread, the red thread used by Theseus to find his way.
Ariane Andereggen and the models who serve as a kind of Tableaux Vivants, follow and lose their own thread. Their inner state is lack of orienation – the impossiblity of combining wishes and dreams with the extremes of reality. The mystic show/fashion/art installation is a balancing act between reality and dream – exactly like the surreally inspired collection by Augustin-Teboul.
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Photo: Max Merz
Photo: Max Merz
Photo: Max Merz
