BLESS — Celebrating 10 Years of Timelessness
Bless came to fame in the winter of 97/98, when the models of a Martin Margiela fashion show wore Bless wigs made out of fur. Heralded as one of fashion’s most innovative designers, the Paris and Berlin-based duo (Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag) quickly refused to capitalize on one milieu. Constantly investigating the boundaries of style, Bless slides from fashion to beauty, interior decoration to art exhibition, collaboration with other brands to stylized advertising.
Their production, which sits on the fine line between art object and design, high function and high fashion, is always unique and marked by the recycling and adaptation of unexpected items put to use in a totally new way.






[…] Erneuerer war er freilich keiner, der Unterricht von Couture-Techniken wie Paillettenstickerei damals sicher nicht mehr zeitgemäß. Da mussten schon andere her: etwa Jil Sander, Vivienne Westwood, Helmut Lang, Raf Simons oder eben die aktuelle Leiterin Veronique Branquinho. International erfolgreiche DesignerInnen wie Bless, Wendy&Jim, Petar Petrov oder Ute Ploier sind AbsolventInnen. […]