Haderlump welcomed guests into the iconic Haus der Visionäre in Berlin to show EXLIBRIS for fashion week.
The collection explores identity, authorship, and the legacy of ownership. EXLIBRIS signifies an evolution of the brand’s conceptual practices, and a conversation around impermanent objects as markers identity.
“Exlibris,” is Latin for “from the books”. The name refers to small printed plates that in the past, would act as identity markers for the owners of rare and valuable books. These plates were both a signifier of ownership, but also a suggestion of identity. They were miniature artworks with attached meaning, stemming from the object they reserved and the owner of that object.
A motto, a coat of arms, a mythological figure—each one a quiet yet deliberate declaration: This is mine. This is who I am.
HADERLUMP
Textures and materials throughout the collection– deadstock linen, aged leather, rough denim– capture the tactility of antique books. Intentional patterns of wear suggest our impact on treasured objects, marking them with our touch mirrors the same way they mark us.
Hair and makeup by Caia Cosmetics enhanced the contrast between structural and fluid designs to build out a cohesive story.
An interplay of fluid and structural silhouettes, and classical versus contemporary styles, creates an uncomfortable suspension between severity and softness. There is a subtle undertone of dread, of time passing and what that means for individuals, for fashion, for artifacts– what that means for the future.
If ownership is impermanent, how does that affect the politics of power?
“With EXLIBRIS, HADERLUMP explores the tension between the physical and the digital, between permanence and impermanence, asking: What remains when the mediums we create through begin to disappear? Can art—and identity—truly be erased?”
HADERLUMP
The inspiration, to claim something through an impermanent form of ownership, questions how we can bring meaning into the future even without the objects to prove it was once there. In an increasingly digital world, so much of what we value is intangible.
How can we use this understanding to move forward in a way that proves what we have accomplished and who we are, when the physical relics may not be available?
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