"As Erasure once sang, in their song "Love to Hate You," "love and hate, what a beautiful combination!"
I couldn't say it any better, and in fact, love-hate relationships are amongst my favourites - the feeling that you love and hate something simultaneously, or at different times, depending on mood.
Over the years I've had love-hate relationships with a variety of people, places, and things, including Madonna, New York, Baroque Architecture, the 80's, Paris, Morrissey, Cats, the Desert, Artichokes, Toronto, The Sound of Music, Bret Easton Ellis, Caviar, Communism, Gay Clones, Karaoke, Lesbian Separatists, Academia, and Rimming. Without love, the world would be a bleak and unforgiving place. But without hate, love would be meaningless. So don't take your pick, choose both! As Pope Ondine once said to me, „Hate is a great emotion - it's like taking a nice big shit." But as Anita Ekberg says in Fellini's "La Dolce Vita," when asked what she likes most in life, "I like lots of things, but there are three things I like most: love, love, and love.""
„Woke up in a motel room, I see the world dancing through glittering eyes. Raging floodwaters rush down the cliff at the foot of the Niagara River. Painful loneliness and yet sweet as honey! Gentle as the river at the end is my destiny without God. Light figures and shadow beings - in between I would like to say to you:
I love you!
Oh, you Saints and Sinners,
now take this collection and bring it to life!“
Inspired by the films “The Night of the Hunter” by Charles Laughton and “Niagara” with Marylin Monroe, the 4-person group, consisting of the Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, the German goldsmith Jonathan Johnson, the model and DJ Ewan Ferguson from Manchester and the sound composer and cameraman Florian Kehbel, set off from Toronto to Niagara Falls and then on to Port Elgin, on Lake Huron, the birthplace of Bruce LaBruce
The aim is to create a vision for this jewelry. A vision that Bruce LaBruce and Jonathan Johnson have shared for 14 years, a fascination for LOVE and HATE.
As in the movie “The Night of the Hunter”, this new collection aims to challenge the stereotypical attributes of good and evil.
In a world that is now almost completely ideologized, in which the supposed good is supposed to fight against evil, only more hate is created.
Part of the new collection therefore involves reversing gender roles and thus robbing them of their traditional functions.
The result is the essence of a road trip through south-eastern Canada, past strip clubs, luxury hotels, Mennonites, the endless expanses of this North American landscape and its urban structures.
Including a music video that amalgamates this 10-day journey into a short trip.
Von der Erstellung bis zur Veredelung findet alles in unserer Werkstatt im Herzen Hamburgs statt. Das erspart uns einerseits unnötige Versandwege zu externen Produzenten und andererseits produzieren wir nur so viel, wie wirklich benötigt wird.
Wir feiern die moderne Schule als Echo des künstlerischen Urknalls des Bauhauses. Eine Kollektion mit dem Anspruch, Schmuck für die Ewigkeit zu schaffen!
