The evocative combination of leather and lace defines a new collection from Tsatsas, seeing the German leather brand unite with cult 1990s designer Kostas Murkudis on a series of clothing and accessories made entirely from natural Scandinavian calfskin and delicate French lace.
Murkudis rose to prominence in the 1980s working alongside fellow German designer Helmut Lang as his first assistant, the pair defining the cool and seductive minimalism of Lang’s eponymous label, which would in turn reshape 1990s style. Later, Murkudis would found his own label, which he says is rooted in a desire ’to find a balance between contrary things’, as he described in a 2015 Prestel-published monograph of his work. He remains creative director of the label today, which first showed from 1996 to 2001 in Paris, before being relaunched in 2006.
