The body has always been political. But in Berlin, it is more than that. It is a battleground, a canvas, a provocation, a home. “KÖRPER” begins there, in that particular tension the city generates between self-destruction and self-invention, between the grotesque and the tender, between what the body is told to be and what it insists on becoming.
SKIRT: VINTAGE
BELT & SHOES: CUSTOM MAX TEUTSCH
REST STYLISTS OWN
JACKET: VINTAGE
SHOES: CUSTOM MAX TEUTSCH
REST STYLISTS OWN
Shot against a neural studio backdrop, the series focuses on only on the body itself: tattooed, costumed, contorted, exposed. The models move through shifting states of vulnerability and power as fixed ideas of gender and beauty dissolve. What remains is something rawer and more honest: bodies that refuse to be legible on anyone else’s terms.
DRESS: 032c
BOOTS: VINTAGE
Stylist Max Teutsch builds a wardrobe that resists categorization. A white fur skirt worn with platform clogs, a weathered leather coat wielded like armour, a 032c polo dress paired with ski boots, leather bondage trousers anchored by massive platform shoes. The references mix BDSM imagery with queer subcultural fashion and add surreal combinations that reflect a city that no longer explains or justifies itself. Makeup artist Kyra Lui extends this logic onto the face with heavy-lidded, theatrical, mask-like looks.
BLAZER: CUSTOM MAX TEUTSCH
PANTS: VINTAGE
BELT: SF1OG
SHOES: NEW ROCK
Yuki Gaderer shoots in black and white to create abstraction rather than nostalgia. This approach links the work to a broader history of the body in art and photography, including artists like Robert Mapplethorpe and Nan Goldin, while also acknowledging bodies that have often remained unseen.
CREDITS:
Photography: Yuki Gaderer
Styling: Max Teutsch
MUA: Kyra Lui
Styling Assistant: Nina
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