ARTHUR ARBESSER PRESENTS

From now on we present our collections in season since the direct-to-consumer model has become the driving force for our business.

We also moved studio and acquired an old car-repair and garage space.
Here we finally have the room to literally do whatever we feel like doing – from our showroom in one end to producing clothes and painting fabrics at the other end or planning exhibitions with other creatives and lots more.

This feeling of complete independence and freedom is invigorating! Especially since the old, seemingly firm set rules of the fashion system have been broken down it gives a brand like ours the opportunity to think outside the box and play by our own rules.
Our collections have also become smaller, more focused and always contain up-cycled materials from past seasons.

For this one we found a big roll of a tobacco and black stripe from the famed Austrian fabric mill
BACKHAUSEN that we used in our Fall 18 collection. Now we turned it into a set of fluid trousers and a small cheeky waistcoat.

The studio moves also meant an insane number of boxes filled with our over 10 years of brand history: the archive, dying samples, hundreds of books, fabrics and buttons were overwhelming but all the packing, taping and unpacking revealed a lot of forgotten, hidden treasures.

One of the new prints displays a composition of those treasures: various buttons and curious objects were scanned individually and assembled on black and yellow background to result in a whole new entity.
Another one is an enlarged, blurred image of a repeated vintage button and the different colored tapes we used to close our moving boxes got us inspired and ended up in a multi-colored stripe print.

But also, large stripes of fluid contrast colored wool were sewn together and turned into essential, clean dresses while the skirt hemlines – irregular or pointy – create a more dramatic, theatrical feel. The trousers are skinny with a flare or unisex straight leg and the shirts remain printed, airy and oversized.
The collection was also thought to go with the capsule we designed for traditional underwear brand HANRO.