Ingrid Kraftchenko's. 𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 - The Body of Architecture '24 London Fashion Week Press Show

This is an invitation to Ingrid KRAFTCHENKO's 'The Body of Architecture '24 London Fashion Week Press Show, including immersive site specific performance piece based on her durational recurring show for London Fashion Week LFW40 at 𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 - (A Performance Art Theatre, KRAFTCHENKO Atelier & Film Studios.) Press Show 22/09/24 - 21:00hrs. Window Performers: Fung Neo & Lizy, Full cast to be announced. Show Soundtrack by Sin of The Father. Visuals by Liam Noonan. Afters: Sin of The Father Show Soundtracks, 0007, G.xist, Kraftchenko, Sin of the Father. Stylist Emika O Seger. Words by Piotr Bockowski & IK. Lookbook Photographer: Jonathan Hallam. Show Catwalk Wide: Kevin Brown, Show Catwalk Moving Interior: Joy Bomer & Nadja. Full show team releeased in show press release. 

22/09/24 21:00hrs > 23:00hrs > Afters > 02:00hrs 

She questions who is safe and who is disposable by re-understanding the 'Body as Architecture' and the current capitalist supply and demand and priority for protective, post-utilitarian clothing and bespoke accessories fusing a delicate use of resilient fabrics. The Body of Architecture '24  unfolds at Kraftchenko Atelier, as an exploratory site-specific work and invites the audience to immerse themselves in the performance and Architecture of her first London Atelier & store. The new collection is showcased through live-exhibition by the artist reroutes the gaze via architectural intervention; installations and live choreography, sound, and moving images. 

Ingrid Kraftchenko opens 𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 in a Victorian historic disused Factory in Glebe Road, Haggerston E8, which was built in 1890, which she has transformed into her post-industrial "Dollhouse." Dollhouse is named after the play by Henrik Ibsen c. 1879. At Dollhouse; the norms of Theatre proscenium stages are under interrogation; as interscenium, simultaneous hybrid spatial interventions.  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-exterior accentuates the removed agency of the models. The fashion show and durational performances throughout the hours of the opening show 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 motives of anonymity and isolation in urban environments. The exhibition will open durationally to the public following the live show on mannequins. 

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. 

While the domestic space of Kraftchenko Atelier opens up as an arena to discuss politics of shelter and dwelling, at the same time it calls for initiative in spatial surgery and architectural interrogation. At Kraftchenko Atelier, the post-runway show encourages adaptation strategies for existential runways from control agents within megacities. She viscerally hand-paints psychosomatic urban guerrilla tactics on the political canvas of fabrics.

For The Body of Architecture '24 at Dollhouse (The Theatre of the Domestic) the characters constantly exchange locations, physical states and sexual identities in a game of temptation and denial. The multimedia fashion show and architectural theatre works subverts the space of the stage via rotations and suspensions. 
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. 

Words by Piotr Bockowski & Ingrid Kraftchenko

The Body of Architecture '24 show was written and directed by Ingrid Kraftchenko & Piotr Bockowski. Full Cast to be released. Dollhouse was founded on the 1st December 2023 in London by Ingrid Kraftchenko. The show was sponsored in mannequins by Proportion London and in products by Blend, Trinny London, South Downs Water, Harlot Wines, Propercorn and Volkova. The brand did not receive any funding for this showcase, besides Ingrid's other full time job of her own Film Studios at Dollhouse; which pays the team and which she set up to fund the brand as a sole woman Limited Company Owner for 3 yrs in UK.