AW25_Der Blaue Reiter
GR10K presents AW25 as a reflection of its ethos: garments optimized to function in contemporary production infrastructures—i.e., garments stereotypically labeled as workwear as a safe-conduct commercial standard. The common concept of workwear, as framed by today’s retail landscape, is a simplifying norm applied to fashion’s coalescence.
GR10K has titled its Autumn-Winter collection “Der Blaue Reiter”, reflecting on the necessary imprecision and fragility that defined the early stages of many avant-garde movements that laid the groundwork for contemporary culture.
“Der Blaue Reiter” was the name of the artistic collective formed by Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee, August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and Gabriele Münter. The group formed around the charting of expressionism as direct avoidance of naturalism in art.
GR10K continues its practice of referencing artist collectives and historical phenomena central to art history as a direct vector of creativity. Uniforms, workwear, and functional clothing have always been the ‘garderobe’ staple of painters, sculptors, and artists at large, often both as sustenance job attire and as a practical means of production for their art.
