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Ingrid Kraftchenko Dollhouse '25 22/02/25 21:00hrs
Ingrid Kraftchenko will close London Fashion Week Saturday 22nd February evening show at 21:00hrs with her epynomous Runway Show Dollhouse at a secret central London location.
'Art is my weapon.' IK
This is an invite only event, but we are releasing a 50 limited edition number of tickets for public access. This is a show not to be missed 𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 ~ X
Kraftchenko's deconstruction of clothes as well as her atelier architecture, both point at industrial collapse and are mobilised as critique of fashion production through renegotiation of functionality. Kraftchenko's modus operandi is based on pre-existing, deadstock and sustainable technical materials that become involved in innovative construction process of dynamic urban protection uniforms, juxtaposed hand stitching and painting utilising zero waste japanese deconstructive pattern cutting and weaving techniques. By re-appropiating fetish, military and medical aesthetics, Kraftchenko draws links between control, submission, resistance and community. She viscerally hand-paints psychosomatic urban guerrilla tactics on the political canvas of fabrics. Ingrid Kraftchenko and invites you to a new cenral London location. Dollhouse forms the DNA of the Kraftchenko's ideal couture body, as a fetishized femininnity doll, showing the artificiality of gender as constructed by fashion, exploring the mannequin as a site of resistance and disobedience. Embodying a cultural bodily uniform of dynamic and sustainable urban protection; Kraftchenko challenges the notions of functionality of deconstructive continuous skins in architecture and fashion in industrial collapse.
The invitation to dynamic exploration of the interior-turn-ecterior accentuates the removed agency of the models. The runway show and her solo performance throughtout aim to distort oppositions between fashioned bodies and manufactured industrial objects. Audience alike performers willingly depersonalised as parts of collective creation of post-industrial space dynamics. Restrained bodies of human dolls embody key codes of the brands motive of anonymity and isolation in urban environments.
Ingrid Kraftchenko is a radical collaborative Atelier spanning multi-disciplinary works operating between Architecture and Fashion design, Film, the Visual and Performing Arts, often addressing issues of bodily enclosure and shelter at scales ranging 1:1 - 1:3000
