Specialties
BLESS is a visionary substitute to make the near future worth living for.
She is an outspoken female - more woman than girl. She's not a chosen beauty, but doesn't go unnoticed. Without a definite age she could be more between her mid twenties and forties. B. hangs around with a special style of man. She has no nationality and thinks that sport is quite nice. She's always attracted by temptations and loves change. She lives right now and her surroundings are charged by her presence. She tends to be future orientated. BLESS is a project that presents ideal and artistic values by products to the public.
History
Established in 1997.
BLESS came to fame in the winter of 97/98, when the models of a Martin Margiela fashion show wore BLESS wigs made out of fur. Heralded as one of fashion's most innovative designers, the Paris and Berlin-based duo (Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag) quickly refused to capitalize on one milieu.
Constantly investigating the boundaries of style, BLESS slides from fashion to beauty, interior decoration to art exhibition, collaboration with other brands to stylized advertising. Their production, which sits on the fine line between art object and design, high function and high fashion, is always unique and marked by the recycling and adaptation of unexpected items put to use in a totally new way.
BLESS have exhibited internationally at the 1st berlin biennale (1998/99), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999), Manifesta 4 (2002), Palais de Tokyo (2003), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006) and most recently at Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2010).
Meet the Manager: Jordan D.
BLESS Shop Berlin, relocated and renewed, now floats like a private island, three floors up and hidden away in a typical residential street of East Berlin.
Existing as the home of the first BLESS collector, the space is filled with BLESS products, that over time, grew and took shape as the perfect collection to live in and with.
This apartment ambience extends the concept of welcome. As a visit to BLESS is an energy intense investment (there are three floors to climb) this energy is rewarded with intimacy.
