RUSTY HEART

Structure vs wilderness, rigidity vs femininity. The 2013 collection ‘Rusty Heart’ visualizes an interaction between two opposing elements to create a collection like no other.
Inspired by Linus Reichlin’s novel ‘The Yearning of Atoms’ (2008) it is full of wonderful paradoxes that should not really go that well together – but hell, do they work! The last scene of Reichlin’s novel, where the cold­hearted Inspector dances with an ethereal woman, communicates the most complicated laws of entropy and nuclear energy. A dance between water and iron. Life and energy – born out of this performance.
The collection encapsulates this transformation of the apathetic, iron ­heart, touched by the erupting chaos of love. Let’s start with the iron heart: Uniforms and knight’s armour, epaulettes and broad shoulders and a colour palette firmly rooted in the aesthetic of war and the military. But then – the details! Playful butterfly-­like prints, batik, hand-painted illustration reminiscent of clouds or insect patterns counteract all this rigid, heavy masculinity.
This skillful combination of different densities and textures, of masculinity and femininity suits a strong-willed women that has no problems to amalgamate her inner warrioress with her seductive core.