Virgos and Leos

I returned from Italy back to Finland. Inspiring autumn rain falls on my face when i wait my love to arrive on the railwaystation. autumn is long; i started to sketch.

UNITED WORLD OF LOVE AND FEELINGS

SECRETS OF SUMMER

we are filled with dreams and fantasies, that sometimes are hidden even from ourselves. still secretly, they guide us through days and weeks, making us choose certain things not too clear to our conscious. these whispers from the heart guide us to the mysterious gifts, to the people still strangers, to the doors still closed.
photo: kurt prinz (www.kurtprinz.org)













photos: bernhard schöninkle

JENNA

Fuck the sewing machine!
Fuck the season colours!
Fuck the summer collection!
Fuck the fashion shows!
Fuck the trendy magazines!
Fuck the brand shoes!
Fuck the fashionable prizes!

LETS GO NAKED FOR THE SUMMER!

This shirt has made with double layered fabrics. The one under, is decorated with different printed pattern,s those are little visible through the red transparent fabric on the top. In front, the upper fabric has been cutted in a way, that it reveals parts of the fabric under. The sleaves are highly puffed and designed, creating forms reminding of jewellery or roses. Also available as green version!
Photo: franco winter (www.francowinter.com)

MIIA

Miia is supernormal Finnish citizen living in Hämeenkatu near University of Turku. She studies greek philosophy and cultural history. During the times, when studying is too stressing, she relaxes during the nites by taking part to pyjama party organized by Platons Academy (near Athens). She needs to wear a hairstyled disguise, because she doesnt wanna, that Ksenokrates will find out her real identity, cause she is hopelessly fallen in love one of these antique philosophers called Polemon. Polemon is kind-of-out-of-control-typed man, but his teacher Ksenokrates tries to teach him make better. And its for sure, that Miia is totally out of these teachers plans as being a university student living in Finland and even 2000 years after the death of these charismatic academics!...but you can win if you dont try!

This glamorous "look-like-a-sleeping-dress-babydoll-shirt" has made from naturally coloured polyester. The sleaves are layered tens of times with transparent hard fabric, and later these layer has been collected together so they make really puffed forms on the top of the shoulders.
photo: franco winter (www.francowinter.com)

CORN-SERIE

....thick summer weather before the thunder.... adults suffer from headache because of the pressure.... four innocent girls playing together and waiting for the rain. but just give a little closer look to these sweet youngsters and you may recognize that the innocence is not innocence, sweetness is not sweetness and behind the corn field there is this big agricultural machine only waiting for a proper moment to cut all yellow corn from this fruity field.

design/story: henna aho
fotografer: franco winter (www.francowinter.com)

make-up: andrea zeilinger
hairstyling: ulli petschenig

model: claudia drechsler
barbara lackner
lena aichholzer
angie hlauschek

* * * ILSE * * *

Sleepwalkers reality is as magical as a dream.

Ilse is a white lion who eats little insects. She is from rare species, which exists only in sleepwalkers reality. Her horoscope is Virgo. Also her brother is Virgo and both parents and granny are Virgos.

She has a neighbour, who is also from a very rare species. He is a drumming bear. This bear is not from Finnish forest, but from Luxembourg. Ilse met him, when they were eating the Same Honey. When the bear is drumming, Ilse dances. Sometimes Ilse and the bear record together sound of gondoles in Venice, because it reminds the bear of the sounds of making love. When Ilse becomes tired of soundcontrolling, she starts to wave her body like only a lion can do.

The glamorous shirt is made from transparent polyester. Its is tailored particularly to the shape of forms of a body. The sleeves are puffed, and around the neck is sewed big puffed piece of canvas to make a form of a scarf or a cap.
The size of the shirt is approximately: 36/38.

The skirt is a puffed form made from cotton canvas decorated with running deers. Inside there is a white silk keeping the skirt in shape. To help up the dressing, in back you can find little white zipper.
The size if the skirt is approximately: 36/38.

* * * BETTINA * * *

Bettina was born in very small city of Sweden. Later times of her life she has been spending in Tirol, actually in a little city of two bars called Inzig. When she was 20 years, she was married to a tirolian writer, who moved to Inzig to finish his book about the relations between Sweden and Finland.

Bettina collects dried flowers and in the evenings she makes still-lifes and compositions from plants and some dried ladybirds attached to them. When the husbands enters in the middle of Bettinas particular working space, he immediately gets inspirated to make still one chapter to his book about the creativity of Swedish people. He has ended to the conclusion, that Finland has totally lost the game against her neighbour country. Sweden has Abba, the world championship in ice hockey, Hennes&Mauritz and Bettina... But how come he doesnt remember the Eurovision contest winner of the year 2006!


This summer shirt is made from extremely comfortable soft and light cotton. Its thema has gained inspiration from innocent mid-summer festival time in Scandinavia. As decoration, there is printed pictures of dried flowers all around the canvas. The shape is feminine and highlights the forms of the breasts in delicate way. Sleeves are puffed, and they create sensation of a certain flower, when dressep up. This shirt item is available also with another print. This another print is made from yellow flowers and light shades of orange and green. The shirt is decorated with a black little picture of butterflies and a ladybird.
The size of both shirts is approximately: 38

* * * HANS * * *

Maria was the first girl, with who Hans shared his toothpaste. The life with this sensational female was something, that Hans could never imagine for himself. He felt totally accepted, totally understood. Maria didnt laught to his He-man collection or Spiderman towels. Maria spoke reasonable things even after opening his hidden box filled with thousands of collected suprises from eastern eggs. Maria was a Super-girl and he could be her Wild Tiger Sheeba.

Unluckily, Hans needs to spend many weeks in hospital up to Alps every year, because he suffered from particular lung allergy, that is threated by mountain air. For warming up his heart during the time in the mountains, Hans tought of Marias face, and to warm us his body, he dressed up to a coat, that was made partly from dear pullover of this loved Super-girl.

ALP MEMORIES JACKET (unisex)
This jacket has made from thick cotton with coloured squares. Part of the jacket has covered with light purple pieces of soft vintage pullover. In front there are 4 buttons and big zipper. As decoration, you can find line of 5 buttons from the back side. The silk inside is beige and its decorated with a printing.
The size of this jacket is approximately: 40.

* * * MARIA * * *

Maria is superintelligent young woman, who was raised by strightly structurated educational program. Her parents put her to learn piano playing at the age of 3, to dance ballet at the age of 4, and to paint with oil colours at the age of 5. She never had childhood, before she met his Hero in the hospital, where she was making UNESCO research about the most rare lung deseases in the world.

Her hero, Hans, revealed to her a world of play, laugh and passion. With this wild and organic boy soul, she could free herself from demanding seriousness and rude strictyness. Because of Hans, she is now capable to recocnize music by her heart not with her brain, to move her body without thinking all the time, which movement looks good and which not, and with Hans she can build up the most radical art installations ever made in her life.

When Hans enjoys some medical treatments, that Maria invented, in the Alps, she maintains the life energy of Hans in her heart, by using a pullover, made partly from the same material, than Hans one has made of.
This spring warmer has made of mixing soft light green polyester canvas and light purple vintage pullover. The shirts essence is structred on dramatic tailoring of these two differet canvases. Dialogue maintains dynamic and exciting, but still contisting the harmony and sense of balance. Shirt is comfortable, but strongly slimmed to bring up the feminine shapes of the body.
The size of this shirt is approximately: 38/40.

* * * EVA * * *

Eva works in the cafeteria of Favorites social center for family care. She has the longest nerves in the world, because there is no day, she wouldnt empathically listen the stories of visiting customers. Unemployed young fathers, imigrant wifes, old women suffering from illnesses or alcoholic men in the crisis of their middle age period. All these characteristic persons touch Evas heart with little good news told about every day, but very often she hears also scenes about insults or arguments.

Eva understands well, that life cant always be happy, and thats why she doesnt stress about unlucky stories heard. In contrary, she tries to get little positivism out of them by turning dramatic confrontations into the language of funny characters in a comic story. Its not the first time, she gets the tears of relief into the eyes of a person discussed with, when she shows her drawings about notes made. Kind of catharsis in a cafeteria, kind of naturally talented life therapeut.

SWEET ULTIMATUMS -SHIRT, unisex (on the left)
This t-shirt is made of white polyester decorated with drawings and written dialogues between different characters. Both sides (left and right) are covered with light yellow cotton slides to bring comfort and secure sensation to the skin. As accessory, there is particular slice from light purple vintage pullover around the neck.

LITTLE IRRITATIONS -SHIRT, unisex (on the right)
This ironically humoristic homewear has made of white cotton decorated with lots of drawings and writings on it. Both side of the shirt are covered with long slices of soft light yellow cotton, that is possible to tie around belly. In front of the shirt you can find two bees as color illustartion, and in the back there is a comic serie of ironic dialogues between these bees. Main colour used is pink.

* * * MARTIN * * *

Martin is a writer, who has just invented the Great Idea for his next book. The world in the novel is much more interesting than the reality in concrete world, and some of the imagined characters are totally very much more exciting, than the normal people, that he has to deal with every day. He loves his girlfriend from the bottom of his heart, but sometimes he really would like to escape the infinite sexual passion received from her. Nights are the best moment for the inspiration, but also he is too much needed in bed spending quality time with her girl.

One evening Martin accidentaly invented to use ugly, but so comfortable underwear, that right away killed all sexual desires from his girlfriends mind. These “sex killers” became Martins protection, and they are the key to his world of litteral fantasies, while the girlfriend takes care of her new passion, gardening.

SEX KILLER UNDERWEAR/HOMEWEAR (dressed on jeans)
sex killer pants are available in 3 different colours. Martin is wearing the simplest version without canvas inside. These pants are made of blue striped canvas, and in front, you can find light yellow soft cotton piece. 2nd model of this serie is made from extrelemy soft red cotton and filled inside with cotton decorated with little ornamentic flowers. 3rd model is made of beige cotton and covered with ornamentic canvas inside.
The sizes of these pants are approximately: 40 and 42.

* * * CORINNA * * *

Corinna had just returned from a walking trip through the city and then lying on her bed, very tired and a little sad, but for not any certain reason. She was thinking about imagined dear person, kind of her lover, whose lack she felt, tough there never had been even his presence. She started to write a love letter in the nighty light given by a broken lamp

”I love you the most at the moments of departures.
I love you the most when we are separated by thousands of kilometers.
I love you the most during my lonely dream, when im thinking that
In one day, there was somebody.”

ON THE LEFT: LOVE LETTER DRESS
This long dress designed for special occasions has been made from old night dress of used soft white cotton. Intimate and pure, open but still innocent. The white canvas has been sewed to create creases all over. Inside there is a luxorous silk decorated by little white and brown hearts, and in the back, there is a long zipper to help dressing up. As accessory, in the front side of the dress, you can find 5 ribbon lines filled with a word ”LOVE”. Around the neck is ment to tight a satin ribbon coloured by sweet peach.
The size of the dress is approximately: 38.

ON THE RIGHT: WHITE PAPER DRESS
This special dress has made from paper originally ment for lino graphics. The inside sensation of the paper is fresh and silky, but on the top its surface is soft and all over covered with very delicate structure. Dress is big and it gives a lot space for a body to move inside. Around the neck, is possible to draft a scarf, also made from the same paper.
The size of the dress is approximately: 38/40.

* * * JILLIAN * * *

Jillian said goodbye to the love of her life in the iron harbour of Sudbahnhof last friday. It was the 13th day, a day of unluck, they say. Anyway, the leaving of a lover had nothing to do with superstitions, because she had always know, that the soul of a sailor will be stronger than the silky touch of her back. To survive a period after his leaving, Jillian collected all the old clothes of this man, that he left behind, and spend every evening under the window by knitting and by knitting.

MISS YOU DRESS
This dress has made from old t-shirts of men. Slices cutted from dark shirts has been attached together with yellow and red rope. Around the neck will be entagled a long slide of canvas continuing from the shirt part. this "scarf" will give a feeling of secure and protected. In the back, there is canvas fullprinted with words saying "Miss. You. Miss. You." The sensation received from the dress is punk-stylish but still very glamorous.
the size of the dress is approximately: 38

* * * YESSICA * * *

Yessica uses luxus as medicine. Her journey through Vienna Is filled with creamy cakes and marsipan roses. As much sugar and pinky colours, that its possible to put into one cake. Her journey through Vienna goes through royal gardens of round bushes and trees cutted like lollipops. Through luxorous shopping streets decorated with millions little lights creating amazing views and shops selling diamonds and sculptured miniature chocolates.

As much young boys she could ever want, are offered in marmoric statues and in golden decorations in generous Vienna. Desirable glances and flirting smiles waiting a little mark of answering yes. Satin sheets in purple color and soft divans covered with deep blue canvas.

This is her renessance, new possibility to fill with cream all those tiny holes she shooted to her soul when she left her husband behind. Lonely piano trying to find the letters of his lost name. One note after another goes wrong, but the melody is beautiful in her totally saddnes. Purifying tear rain cleaning away sweat, grease, salt and minerals. Great timing to cream with melody all those areas on her skin that were burned by unlucky marriage.

MARRIAGE NEWS DRESS (dressed on the normal clothing)
Upper part of this very particular dress has made from a wrapping paper received around a red rose. The skirt part has made from the pages taken from a newspaper ”Der Standard”. These two different parts are attached to each other by a wide polyester ribbon coloured by red and decorated with little white spots. As accessory you can find a satin ribon in front if the dress, creating a bow between the breasts.
The size of this dress is 36/38.

* * * ALISSA* * *

Alissa lives in Burggasse, near ecoshop and between church and shoestore. She is unemplyed, because she doesnt want to work in whatever job only for money. She knows she cant continue like this long time, cause her savings are running out and she has already tasted all different flavors of cheapest tuna fish in nearest supermarket.

But still she believes in her dream, she wants to design summer dresses for young women and live in Italy. Last december she was visiting in Roma for a week to realize even a little bit of her fantacies. Nobody in her neighborhood know how much mental strenght she gained there. Every time when she has a strong pressure in her heart because of her unemployment situation, she comforts herself by remembering the words heard in front of a orchid shop near Travestere. A young handsome boy stopped in front of her, smiled and said something, Alissa still doesnt know what it means. But in her heart she feels, these words are a sign. ”sei una ragazza bellissima! mi sposeresti?”

BROWN FLOWER DRESS AS A BRIDGE
Spring dress made from cotton and polyester. From inside it is covered partly with soft and partly with hard cotton. The shaping in the back has made by being inspired by the old Vienese style of a royal princess dress. The dress is covered by decorations of little images of running deers and applicated writings made with blue and yellow ropes. The sentences sewed in Finnish to the brown canvas tell a story about a rain of frozen orchids. ”Huomenna sataa tuhansia valkoisia orkideoja, joista puolet jäätyy matkalla maahan. Kuulemme niiden naksahdukset, kun jää taittuu kiven pintaan. Koskaan ennen sade ei ole tuntunut tällaiselta.”
The size of this dress is approximately: 38

* * * JOANNA * * *

”Dear sister,
this letter has been written in Vienna, where i ended up not to find the treasure at the end of rainbow, but to stare black shapes of winter flowers leaning each other in the visual silence of the dark garden. This nite i cant sleep, tough I may not say, that I would be awake eather.

Ive been silent for two months without speaking the local language, living a life of an all-time moving object. Everybody knows im not originally from here, and my real future will be somewhere else. My body is seen as Polish, British, Swedish or German. This way given, is a path filled with freedom, freshness and existentialistic presence, but also prejustices, stereotypes and ignorance.

Without a real history or a future with the place situated, the human relations shall value the days lived. From these relations you may mirror your special character, but how is this feedback received, when the fact is, that your roots are here unknown, your origin is seen more as a Stranger than as a woman coming from real life lived in Finalnd.

Instead of talking how things are in ”your reality” or in ”my world”, we may try to share experience of ”a third space”. Instead of speaking the values differently measured, we could spend a moment by touching the hairy surface of a giant lily, that exists as a still substance in her dark position during this nite. The lily delivering instant sensation to the skin introduced, without knowing about sharings or splittings, just appearing as the same, in some way very much the same.
with love, Joanna”

GIANT LILY SHIRT
The shirt is made from green polyester canvas filled with little white spots. On the back side, in the neck, is a canvas rose, like marking a place for a hood. Down part of the shirt, there are two long white canvas slides for attaching the shirt around the body. Right slide is decorated with miniatyre pictures of oldic cyclists and left slide with running deers. These two slides shall round the middle part of body very tigthly to maintain the upper green part straight. The result is elastic, very protected and comfort.
The size of the shirt is: 36/38.