von Bardonitz

von Bardonitz

Since 2007, the grandchild of baron von Bardonitz has been expressing her history through conceptually sophisticated avantgarde-collections. It is the story of a young woman who explores her own past, tackles social topics of those days and places them into the future in a fictional manner.

The designer came up with the label von Bardonitz when she found pictures and old documents about the history of her family in her grandmother’s attic. Baron von Bardonitz lived in Czech Republic, generations before her grandmother, and is the great-grandfather of the couturière from Berlin. Since then, she has been expressing her own roots as well as current social topics in collections, short stories, performances, and multimedia installations. In doing so, the designer puts herself in the place of real or imaginary family members and eras, and it seems like she then gets lost in her work until it is finished.

The typical style of von Bardonitz does not have a clear gender classification. von Bardonitz is based on classic men’s cuts that are transformed and used for the existing genders. Traditional forms are broken up into their geometrical basic forms, to be joined together and interpreted in a new way. When heavy woolen material is combined with tender chiffon and silk material, it demonstrates strenght by accepting weakness. It is the liberation from prevailing conventions.

Proportions are being shifted, enhanced and redefined. Primary colors form the framework and are completed by light to contrary tender shades.

The designer chose fashion design in order to communicate and demonstrate her ideas. She learned her trade at a private school in Berlin. Concerning fashion, she states: “I have the feeling that fashion is the only means that really allows me to express myself. I have communicated through arts, too, but I’ve always come back to fashion. I started when I was 16. I can include all kinds of topics in fashion.” In 2008, she founded the designer collective “The Offer”, organized runway events, show room presentations and published a magazin. “The motivation behind it was the exchange and the fact that a designer needs to be an all-round talent. Besides the craft, the economic part is important, too.” Now the label von Bardonitz can draw from a well-founded network and is developping very well.

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