9 - Kirsten Pleitner

Textile Designer

Simplicity by choice

Or

There are so many things I do no want (socrates)

Simplicity is the motive of the designing process, but at the same time I pay great attention to detail, choice of technique and material.  Via experimental approaches I find applications for un-/ usual materials.  For me it's a play with optical effects, technique and connotations.

I am very inspired by the phenomenon of the oxymoron (two words of opposite meaning form a new message together) which I transfer to the visual field.  Textiles (as base material) offer the greatest metaphorical medium for me to interweave culcures and I guess this is what I'm here for.

As sustainability is a big issue for me I dont follow the commandments of fashion.  Its rather about quality and innovation, questioning the zeitgeist (e.g. our hunt for cheap products that fulfil our needs only for a short while).

I search for aboundance in emptiness

Excitement in the (at first glance) ususal

A simplicity which is not trivial.

and in the end

a twinkle in the eye.