We first met artist, illustrator, photographer, and graphic/fashion designer Eugen Laitenberger last year in a previous post in which he introduced us to his debut collection for his GUNEE Homme label.
Laitenberger is busy at the moment working on multiple projects, but he has found the time to celebrate St Valentine's Day. A passionate fan of Japanese music and animation movies, Laitenberger is paying tribute to the country by sending it a very special flower bouquet: the artist and designer has framed an exclusive sample of his "GUNEE Flower" fabric characterised by a modernly cartoonish floral pattern designed by himself on a white background and is offering it to all Japan-based readers of Irenebrination in a fun competition.
Participants will have to retweet this post or advertise it on the social media and send the relevant links and personal details (name, surname and full address) to the email address: [email protected]
The winner will be chosen randomly among all the people who enter the competition (the prize will be shipped within two weeks from the winner's proclamation) and announced on 16th February via Twitter. The competition is open from the moment this post goes live until 15th February 2015 at midnight (GMT time). To keep updated with what Laitenberger is up to, scroll down to the mini Q&A that follows.
What are you working on at the moment for what regards your label GUNEE Homme?
Eugen Laitenberger: I'm focusing on the production and sale of the Summer 2015 collection. I've ordered the fabrics and, in the next few months, I will be working on the designs. I know that this is not the correct season in the "real" fashion world, but we are a very young and small label and do not need to follow the stressful "fashion production cycle" for the time being. My plan for the next month is creating the patterns for the Summer 2016 collection and shoot and promote it around November this year. I wanted to start GUNEE Homme with shirts and tie/bow ties and expand the range of articles from collection to collection, but founding a company in Germany can be pretty stressful when it comes to the paperwork, so I decided to save energies and expand the range of articles after the Spring/Summer 2016 season.
And what about your work as artist and illustrator, are you focusing on any special projects?
Eugen Laitenberger: I'm working on a project called "Cat Sequence". I designed the book "Dream Sequence" for my best friend, the photographer Madame Peripetie. After this project and considering our obsession for animated cat gifs around the time we were working on the book, I asked her what she would think about the idea of translating her dream sequence characters into cats. And so this project was born. I will illustrate 6 Cat Sequence characters (3 are done) and make sculptures of them. As I'm not so good at making sculptures, a friend is coming to our rescue, and we are currently working on that. The plan is to finalise this project at the end of this year and organise an exhibition next year, or maybe a small preview this year. Stay tuned!
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