PATRICK MOHR

Patrick Mohr’s creations are eccentric, somewhat provocative, outspoken, and very straightforward. His fashion ranges between avant-gardism and street wear, being far from a glamorous appearance. Graduating in 2007 from ESMOD fashion school in Munich, Patrick Mohr was awarded the Prix Createur for the best collection. He worked for Henrik Vibskov in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he found inspiration for his own unique style. In 2008, Patrick Mohr founded his own fashion label. Patrick, the designer who was a vital part of the NJAL T-Shirt Project designing also the shapes of all the other shirts, transcends the line between wearable fashion and art, aiming to expose the needs of an individual through its outer jacketing – regardless of norms and mores. Patrick Mohr’s creations are based on the gender mainstreaming strategy as a future utopia of a modern, emancipated society. Hence all creations are exclusively unisex. Every piece of Patrick Mohr’s clothing is symmetrically tailored, drawing upon a vocabulary of geometric shapes. Equilateral triangles, squares and parallelograms are not only composing the logo but are likewise the carriers of meaning of the creative concept. It is based on a modular assembly system, whose simpleness and logic are the groundwork of the young designer’s blueprints. The geometric shapes find use in the two-dimensionality of the style, whereas the piece of clothing is plastically designed in an almost architectural or sculptural manner. For his first show called "Is the rhomboid rag picker homeless?", presenting his Spring / Summer 2010 collection at Berlin Fashion Week in July of last year, Patrick cast homeless people. All outfits, presented by the homeless as well as by conventional models, construed the destiny of the individual wearer. Nature is one of Patrick Mohr’s biggest sources of inspiration, finding its appropriation in the shape of materials such as wood or jute. His ideal of natural beauty are Canadian and Scandinavian landscapes. In this context, natural abrasion and the perish ability of materials are a particular aesthetic means for Patrick Mohr. Suzy Menkes spoke of a raw energy that prevailed on his catwalk, and at NJAL we are grateful and proud to have someone like Patrick on board.