our designers
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paolo donatello mereu
founder and owner of due due, based in zurich
his goal is to give fellow swiss designers the opportunity to share their work and educate the swiss market on the value behind a handmade garment.
2021 fashion design graduate from the fhnw academy of art and design in basel, switzerland.
his work is inspired and strongly influenced by his Sardinian origins as well as his upbringing within both, the Italian and Swiss culture. Fundamental to his creations is the conservation and modern interpretation of Sardinian craftmanship. Paolo blends cultural contrasts together. He processes controversial topics regarding conventional life and translates them into his collections with humor and symbolism. By sourcing deadstock materials and utilising upcycling as a key element of his working method, he choses an ethical and more sustainable approach on fashion.
His pieces are placed between art, couture and RTW, aiming to create a beautiful harmony.
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gaëlle da costa
Gaëlle Da Costa is a swiss designer, based in Bern. She studied Fashion Design at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel and graduated in 2021.
In her work the question of the body is central. Where does it begin? Where does it end? She tries to interconnect different parts of the human body and embraces it with independently functioning modules - which then can come together in to a collective whole.
Creating a playful balance between rawness fragility and strength. Material seen as an extension of the human body, juxtaposed with the skin. Beauty as a changeable state of consciousness.
Quality is priority. Every piece is handmade by the designer and unique, since she mostly works with deadstock or leftover fabrics produced in europe.
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ilja kager
Ilja Kager is a Swiss fashion designer based in Zurich. He graduated as a bachelor in fashion-design at the fhnw academy of arts and design basel in 2021.
He takes menswear trends and challenges them with opulence and volume to create something that goes far beyond men's fashion standards.
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rosanna löw
Rosanna Löw is a Swiss fashion designer based in Basel Switzerland.
Her work is a wonderful bright and vivid mix of colors and prints that make you smile, along with some more soft and peaceful designs. Her clothes will definitely spice up an ordinary day.
She wants to inject some humor into the often overly-serious world of fashion and aims to inspire people, to be be more playful and adventurous, dressing them selfs.
One of the core tenets of Rosanna's design philosophy is sustainability. She works with new, deadstock, as well as up-cycling vintage textiles and turning them into a hight quality pieces of clothing. Another element that marks her work; every piece is unique and crafted with care and attention to detail, You won't see the exact same T-shirt twice!
She is inspired by Grandmas clothes, that were so well sewn, they still look good 40 years later, as well as, the fast moving fashion trends that surround her, movies, art and the lovely absurdities of every day life.
She completed her studies in fashion design at the Academy of Arts and Design FHNW in 2021.
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mara danz
Mara Danz is a fashion designer born in Switzerland. After working in Paris for Maison Margiela, among others, she returned to the mountains to visualise her own visions of fashion. Driven by curiosity, joie de vivre and the utopianism of a more sustainable world, new collections are created in her studio in Glarus.
By collaborating with artists from interdisciplinary directions, she experiences an exchange of ideas and experiences.
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abel frenz
Abel Frenz is a Zurich based brand founded by Annabel Frenzel.
For a more sustainable world, the focus lies on knitting with pre-loved materials, particularly discarded and holey tights. Threads are cut from these by hand and knit together to create new surfaces and consistencies. That makes every piece unique.
The creations include experimental clothing and accessories with an erotic and humorous approach. Pre-loved materials always bring a memory, a story, thrown away. Let us retell these stories and celebrate our bodies.