How have your relationships and life around you affected your work? Our surrounding physical environment has always influenced our work, much more so than personal relationships or things like this. It is a lot about the immediate space in which we work - our workshop, the city and country we live in. But we always have a lot of projective fantasies in this regard as well: we think a lot about places we have traveled to, and places we long to be at. We are living in New York, but we grew up in Germany.  So we are probably dealing with some sort of chosen geographic translations and displacements in the last few years, questioning an idea of “home”.

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How did you get involved in costuming? It was by accident. I had moved to NYC and I was working at a stored called Antique Boutique which used to be where American Apparel is now on Broadway. The store carried a lot of small designers and I just figured that I could design too so I gave it a shot. I started off creating one of a king tees which I sold at a store called Timtoum on Orchard Street and then I basically moved up from there creating one of a kind prom dresses. Karen O saw one of the dresses and asked me to make one for a show the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s were playing at the Cooler here in NY and then it just sort of took off from there. That’s how I got my start.

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