For Spring-Summer 2019 SCHUELLER DE WAAL proposes FASHION as HYPNOSIS THERAPY. Rather than offering a new collection the designers want to make a statement about the fast pace of fashion and their incapabilities of keeping up. Driven by the idea of giving former designs a new context and using that a

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s research for the development of new design ideas SDW STUDIO presents a fashion film installation. The presentation of this autonomous statement serves as a suggestive form of ‘FASHION THERAPY’. With the thought of slowing down their audience and creating time to reflect in a period of constant rush, SDW makes the link to HYPNOSIS THERAPY.

The presentation took place at Palais de Tokyo during the last days of Paris fashion week Spring Summer 2019, the perfect setting and moment for SDW to close the marathon of fashion weeks by offering its fashion victims or victims of fashion this opportunity of Fashion Therapy.

The protagonist of the film, a hypnosis therapist with mesmerising eyeballs, takes the viewer through steps of induction going deeper into a spiralling trance world of eclectic future fashion suggestions with every step. The fashion suggestions show a fictive persona representing the viewers repressed inner fashion spirit in an intuitive state of unleashed creativity. Just like hypnosis therapists SDW STUDIO aims to plant inspirational alterations and alternative perspectives on fashion in the viewers brain to catalyse change.

‘The Gateway To Fashion’ shows an overview of SCHUELLER DE WAAL's work reshuffled into a new visual appearance. The lookbook depicts both worlds of the film. To create new looks from past collections the duo has strictly split apart the two main directions of their collections, classic minimalism vs. quirky, surreal maximalism. The skin of the model reflects actual scenes from the film and becomes a symbol of the connection between real and fiction, the link between both worlds; the gateway.

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Type

Fashion, Installation and Scenography, 3D

Methods

Styling, 3D Art, Fashiondesign, Artdirection