OTTOLINGER —> CHRISTA BÖSCH + COSIMA GADIENT

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM and SAVANNAH NOLAN portraits by OLIVIER ZAHM photography by MARC ASEKHAME style by LAËTITIA GIMENEZ  design by creative destruction — burning, torching, ripping, rough-stitching: the young swiss-born, berlin-based design duo constructs experimental clothing without borders or boundaries. OLIVIER ZAHM — Ottolinger: where does the name come from? COSIMA GADIENT — Our first studio was in Berlin. We shared a mailbox with an apartment, and we’d receive packages for that name. When we left, we kept the name. It looked good! And it didn’t mean anything. OLIVIER ZAHM — It’s very German-sounding. CHRISTA BÖSCH — It’s German, but it also works really well in English, Chinese, Japanese. OLIVIER ZAHM — What’s it like working as a duo? CHRISTA BÖSCH — It’s really good to have two people. If one person thinks something is good, and the other not so much, we find a way where both of…