Eternalized in a fashion book - a big honor!

Long time ago I was asked if I want my work to be featured in a fashion book showing the 100 best contemporary fashion designers. Would I say no?

The Spanish edition of "Los 100 mejores diseñadores de moda contemporáneos" by Paz Diman is in my hands now and I am proud to say that my work has been featured along big designers such as Walter van der Beirendonck and Maison Martin Margiela.

This is somthing to be proud of. The work featuerd in that book is my series "A forest", where I play with the concept of camouflage. Nature is one of my main sources of inspiration, so I tried making it possible for a person to get invisible in the woods by wearing my items. And it worked.

Here's the images, made by Michele Pauty.

And here you can order the book

Pebelle on Instagramm

A couple of months ago I started with an instagramm account. First I ony used it for private shots to share with the extended family all over the world, but I soon realized how fast you can also share your working life and the development of designs.
I still prefer my old Polaroid but Instagramm's fastness of sharing inspirations, moments and things you love tops my love for oldskool work.
Tune into my account and see what's going on: #pebellesinstagramm

the new website

voila, my new website is online

working on it was time consuming - one of the reasons for my lack of updates on the blog.
this will change now, a lot has happened, a lot needs to be on display and told.

as my website is still a work in progress not all of it is done yet. the pebelle online shop is still in the works and will be live in about 2 weeks. there will be a properly updated press section coming and last but not least you will have the chance to see all videos that ever featured designs by pebelle.

stay tuned.

TILL DEATH DO US PART

Pebelle x The Jamborines - a fashion performance @Kunsthalle Wien, MQ for Early Birds

"Till Death Do Us Part" - a view on the wedding vows and what lies beneath swearing to love someone untill the bitter end. A 4min performance, underlined by the great sound of the up and coming band "The Jamborines" plays with the aesthetics of a classical marriage ceremony but at the same time shows where, according to the wedding vows the end of it all lies: Death. Love beyond death, does it exist? Or was the classic wedding vow a backdoor that the church kept, so you are free to go along once your partner died. Don't young lovers believe in a love that last for an eternity wich includes death?
In Mexican culture death is nothing to be feared, so it is also nothing that divides people. During death day all beloved that had passed away come back for one night and celebrate amongst the living.
Our wedding performance plays with all these sides - ceremonies, love, joy, death - the bride and groom with classical sugar skull make up, the priest that unites the couple but also represents death.

One review even described the performance as a furneral procession!

It was a blast, it was amazing. And it made me happy to be doing what I am doing.

I wanna thank everyone involved in this project!

Art Conception, Costumes: Pebelle
Music: The Jamborines (Caleb Kylander)
Bride: Elena Shirin
Groom: Karl Diwisch (Karl der Schöne)
Priest: Caleb Kylander
4 Bridesmaides, Souls: Vasilena Gankovska, Petra Andjelkovic, Kristina Kölblinger, Lisa Fertner
Make Up: Jolien Hackett (Tatendrang), Shlomit Migay

Images: Charo Centurion

Early Birds: Maria Krasa, Florian Scheck

To get a feel of the sound that was composed and performed by The Jamborines singer Caleb Kylander, here you can listen to that great piece of music:



Images of that performance are here and if you want to see more check out my Facebook fan page:

  
Here is a video of the fantastic event:

  Kunsthalle Wien x EARLY BIRDS from J'aime Julien on Vimeo.

The world in Black and White

For everyone that thinks tie dye is always a matter of rainbow colours, I can assure you: this point of view is wrong. Tie dye doesn't necessarily have to have this blotchy-patchy look of the 70's but can contain of fine patterns, that  enrich your fantasy.

I have recently published a sneak peak of the new series of knee high socks I did on Facebook. Soon after I was at an art event and received a lovely "review" of my work quoting that the design looks like muscles and nerves..... funny enough I often compared it with an x-ray mself, I was very touched and proud that my work triggers thoughts of interpretation.

So, as you can see tie dye and black/white are no enemies.
They can add something to one another.
Cheers, good night.

The Rainbow tree

Thanks to a close friend of mine I was introduced to a tree, that immediatly became my all time favourite tree. Why is very obvious.

The Rainbow tree is something that is totally denied to us Austrians, our clima just doesn't allow it. It's mostly planted in tropical gardens and parks, due to its show-effect. Yes, this tree is a stunner, and yes, walking in a forest of Rainbow trees is what I am going to use to circle my daydreams around while I am walking those wet, cold and grey streets of Vienna.

The axis of a rainbow along with it's colours is a neverending element of inspiration, not only for me as dyeing artist. Just take a look at what Jimmy Hendrix did with this theme.

Axis Bold as Love
....My red is so confident he flashes trophies of war
And ribbons of euphoria.
Orange is young, full of daring but very unsteady for the first go 'round.
My yellow in this case is no so mellow.
In fact I'm trying to say it's frightened like me.
And all of these emotions of mine keep holding me
From giving my life to a rainbow like you.
But I'm a yeah, I'm bold as love,
Yeah yeah......

Barbie Girl

There's no better way to express a bit of girlishness, that stayed within you after you already hit the 30's. So Pebelle's next project could be this skirt. Only with tie dyed hair- To show my "True Colours".  t b c

Stone Age Aerobics with Dandi Wind & Pebelle

Dandi Wind will present us with some new work soon.
I am glad to pronounce that Pebelle will be part of it. The new video was filmed 2 weeks ago in Canada and Dandi was nice enough to send me a sneak peak of what it will be.....
Cave Style Aerobics in a forest? Only she could think about a topic like that.

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Dandi Wind wird uns bald mit neuen Arbeiten breichern. Ich freue mich bekannt geben zu dürfen, dass Pebelle ein Teil davon sein wird. Ihr neues Musikvideo wurde vor 2 Wochen in Kanada abgedreht und Dandi war so nett mir eine kleine Foto-Kostprobe zu schicken....
Höhlenmenschen-Aerobics im Wald? Nur eine wie sie kann sich so ein Thema ausdenken.

And if you haven't heard of Dandi before, so much is said: Dandi Wind is a brilliant music project run by her since 2003, which was already featured in Dazed&Confused Magazine and more. Later on she started the project Fan Death- a European tour with Vampire Weekend followed.
Now she's back on working on Dandi Wind and we all hope she'll make it to Europe. You can check her LastFM for Music or the videos below!

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Und wer noch nicht von Dandi gehört, dem sei soviel gesagt: Dandi Wind ist ein brilliantes Musikprojekt, das sie seit 2003 betreibt und bereits in Dazed&Confused Magazin gefeatured war. Später startete sie auch das Projekt Fan Death, eine Europa-Tour mit Vampire Weekend folgte.
Nun ist sie zurück und arbeitet an Dandi Wind, wir hoffen sie schafft es nach Europa. Mehr gibt es auf LastFM zu hören oder in den unteren Videos!

London Fashion Week - Street Style with Pebelle

Naomi Smart, Fashion Assistant at British VOGUE, got snapped wearing a Pebelle turtleneck- during London Fashion Week!
To view the rest of the gallery just go to: www.harpersbazaar.com

Costumes for Euripides "Medea"

Yesterday "Medea" had it's premiere at Vienna's Theater Spielraum located in the former Erika Kino.

Check out the costumes made by Pebelle!

To get your tickets klick HERE!



















Yesterday "Medea" had it's premiere at Vienna's Theater Spielraum located in the former Erika Kino.

Check out the costumes made by Pebelle!

Little red riding hood

A wonderful silk fabric dyed by Pebelle for Photographer Josef Weiland- who then send me this wonderful image!

A little interview

There's a new interview with me- check it out (it's in German).
Pebelle about the art of dyeing.....

To the interview


Pic by Michele Pauty

les fleurs du mal

photography: Daliah Spiegel
styling: Alexandra Bondi di Antoni
hair & make up: Laurenz Bischof
models: Laura, Yowa (Tempo Models) & Matteo (Tempo Models)







Pebelle:
high waist corsage pants
Bodytights