Bless
Origin: 1997, Berlin, Germany
Designers: Desiree Heiss et Ines Kaag
Fields: accessories, design objects, mens and womenswear
Biography:
Founded in 1995 when they meet at a contest for young designers in Paris, Bless is the constantly evolving conceptual design partnership of Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag. Their ethic is one of complete creative freedom, reflected in innovative, off-beat concepts ranging from fashion accessories through design to art. Since 2002, Bless offers a unisex collection of multifunctional clothes. Bless received the ANDAM Fashion Award Winners in 1999 and 2004.
Style
The creative expression of Bless takes the form of numbered editions, with a permanent research of timelessness. Their leitmotiv: to create with complete freedom, without definite perimeter. A claim illustrated by concepts or products often innovating and always shifted. The brand quickly will make its way in the world of fashion accessory, of design and art. The objects created by Bless result from the fascination of Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag for recycling, the diversion of the uses and the traditional techniques like knitting, the embroidery, the hook, etc.. The accessories of Bless are thus the basics revisited in a surprising design way. Like shoe-socks, moonboots espadrilles, earphones with fringes or pearls, wrapped extensions of wooden pearls…
The Cars: Bless N°35 Automatica
The automotive items have their inspiratory origin in a collaboration with UK’s Intersection Magazine, that asked Bless amongst other designers to create a cover for a car. Bless N°35 Automatica Car Cover and the customized remote controlled cars were officially presented in Berlin, together with the launch of the Bless Lookbook in Intersection Magazine.
The remote controlled cars are customized, pimped or disguised and find thereby new options of use. “The diskoroller » brings the dancefloor to your home, “Servancer” offers you cookies, magazines or your keys on its silver or golden tray….
The Longchamp Collaboration:
“It is important for us to collaborate with different brands, because we enjoy sharing knowledge and experience, and also because such collaborations enlarge everyone’s horizons. The Longchamp collaboration has proved perfect and very fruitful, bringing together the quality of Longchamp, resulting from its heritage as a traditional family business, with our aim of questioning and redefining the shape and function of an everyday object.”
Bless have pushed the design of Le Pliage® to the limits, creating a bag that can be folded inside its own circular leather handles and worn as a bracelet.