Raphael Hauber: Stepping It Up in Spring/Summer 2011

The spring summer collection 2011 is inspired by empty and anonymous stairways, symmetrical stairways that are arranged around a center and which can often be found in big public buildings like old opera houses. A special focus in the collection is a strict symmetry and kaleidoscope effect.

Pictures of a late 70ies stair-rail in an apartment building have been modified and used as all over print for sheer silk cotton shirts and jeans. Another print of a stairway kaleidoscope picture with a male and female model face mirrors the symmetry or asymmetry of a human face.

The pattern exists of symmetrically arranged inserts taken from the stair-rails. A bright apricot nylon block insert is used in ecru linen as well as in denim jackets and shorts and reminds of escape routes. The main fabrics are bleached and blue leight weight denim, blue denim, cotton silk chiffon, cotton jersey, linen and nylon.

Take a walk up each step of the collection here.

Photos Copyright Raphael Hauber.

“Roomers” by Raphael Hauber

In 2003, Raphael Hauber founded his epynous label, which is currently based in Eppelheim, southwest Germany.

For autumn/winter 2010, Raphael Hauber has prepared for us a collection of “Roomers,” which drew inspiration from people who have a temporary and mobile habitation style.

The collection concentrates on the carpet as the means of marking out territorial space, highlighting furniture and giving structure to rooms.

Photos of colored rag rugs and abstract prints of black and white rag rugs in piles appear on garments. Shapes and printed details are marked out with blank spaces of square and oval carpets.

The collection offers a complete wardrobe for roomers, consisting of everyday pieces like colored jeans, t-shirts, and bombers, as well as the more elegant items of suit jackets, pleated slacks, and wide coats.

Please see the following for more articles on Raphael Hauber:
Raphael Hauber & the Reality of Ausbau
Too Much "Quatsch" by Raphael Hauber

Photo and slideshow copyright Raphael Hauber.

Too Much "Quatsch" by Raphael Hauber

Quatsch—the German word for “too much stuff, rubbish, or ‘bullshit’”.

“Too much quatsch” is the inspiration for spring/summer 2010 by German designer Raphael Hauber.

Deconstructive in approach, Raphael bases his collection on the essentials of summer wear, as he features piles of denim jeans and t-shirts printed on the very same garments.

For embellishment and accessories, the collection is accentuated with natural leather and wood. Piles of wood are also found printed throughout the collection.

Photo 2010 s/s collection “Too Much Quatsch” Copyright Raphael Hauber.

Slideshow 2010 s/s collection “Too Much Quatsch” Copyright Raphael Hauber.

Raphael Hauber & the Reality of Ausbau

AUSBAU—used often in relation to construction—is to develop and/or expand with the goal of improvement. In this 2009 a/w collection, designer Raphael Hauber and photographer Heinz Peter Knes expand their disciplines to construct an abstract art form that is free from any association of reality with symbols.

For Raphael, he cuts the photographs to the point that they can no longer lay claim to picturing reality. Such fragmentation allows the pictures to free themselves and assume their own reality—a sense of Concrete Art, the abstractionist movement of the 1930’s in which lines and colors are “concrete” in themselves.

For Heinz, the cutting is like challenging a sacred cow. But the cuts, shreds, and holes also symbolize the end of an era in analog photography, which has been supplanted by digital photography—a transition that he contrasts to the emergence of electronic music, from analog to digital. In the collection, therefore he incorporates a layer of each into every image.

Heinz Peter Knes was born 1969 in Gemünden am Main of Bavaria, Germany. Now based in Berlin, the photographer has been published in numerous magazines since graduating from Fachhochschule Dortmund in 1999. Although at times considered a fashion photographer, Heinz rejects the label in that he is captivated by everything that surrounds the clothing.

Born in 1977, Raphael Hauber studied clothing technology at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and Fashion Design at the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences. Raphael founded his epynomous label in 2003 and is currently based in Eppelheim, southwest Germany.



Photo 2009 a/w collection “Ausbau” Copyright Raphael Hauber.
Slideshow 2009 a/w collection “Ausbau” Copyright Raphael Hauber.