Interview: Mussels and Muscles
What are the designers supported by AFA Support or a Startstipendium Mode working on? In our short interview series, they share insights about their work and talk about what else inspires them!
Lea Köhn is the founder of the jewelry label Mussels and Muscles and received the AFA Support grant 2024. In the interview, she shares what she does with it, which accessories are essential to her, and what she can’t stand about fashion.
What will the AFA support funding enable you to do?
Yesterday I went to Loretto in Burgenland and visited a stonemason to do research for upcoming pieces. While looking at plates of marble, granite and onyx, I could completely focus on the WHY and didn’t have to think of the HOW, thanks to the AFA funding.
A fashion thing you couldn’t live without?
Underwear, socks (only in winter), earrings. It doesn’t need much actually to be honest.
What do you hate about fashion?
UFFFFFFF, there’s a whole lot, but here are my three picks: superficiality, short-livedness, Paris (just kidding).
If the street was your catwalk, which soundtrack would you choose?
Walking the streets with Bobby McFerrin – Improvicació 1 playing in the background would be enormously weird but fun.
Fotocredits: Alexa Sonsino, Manuel Haring
MUSSELS AND MUSCLES & AFA
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AFA Support
2024
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