Ottolinger
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About the brand
Ottolinger is an electrically avant-garde fashion brand founded in 2015 by Swiss designers Christa Bösch and Cosima Gadient, who met during their studies at Basel School of Design. Now based in Berlin, the directional label has gained a cult following for its fearlessly destructive challenge to luxury fashion's status quo. The brand is beloved for its charged silhouettes that balance radical deconstruction and immaculate tailoring, where fabric is burned and slashed, seams are exposed, and edges remain raw, yet all is precisely harnessed in sumptuous forms. Ottolinger's aesthetic centers on taking garments apart and creating new shapes with a raw, hands-on approach. Their punk approach to couture-level tailoring creates an unlikely harmony between meticulous construction and rebellious spirit. Each collection pushes toward singular newness, exploiting the tension between destruction and transformation, while creating confidence for the wearer through asymmetric silhouettes and labor-intensive creations held to the highest quality standards.
