Andreas Hermann Bloch wants to celebrate the extraordinary of the everyday. The menswear collection by the MA graduate of the Royal Danish Academy is based on a group of male informants that Bloch has interviewed and observed. Inspired by how clothes are shaped by the body when worn over time, Bloch has used an alternative pattern drafting technique that creates an imprint of the body in the garments and offers a new and challenging garment fit. This technique relocates the armholes and the neck holes, making the clothes pull in new directions. Based on his ethnographic sample of informants, Bloch has interpreted their styles and ways of life into a collection made entirely in deadstock fabric. Bloch also uses needle punching to highlight elements of their lives. A bomber jacket is re-created to look faded, as the passing of time. A brushed mohair coat is made from inspiration of one informant’s cats, with symmetric furry pattern. Bloch has also hand painted shirts as a translation of the life changes of another informant. Knitwear is made in traditional Danish folklore colours as a reference to another informant’s upbringing in rural Denmark. Our past, social and cultural backgrounds and experiences are embedded in us, and Bloch’s work celebrates these individual trajectories and the eccentricity of the ordinary.
