OTTOLINGER —> CHRISTA BÖSCH + COSIMA GADIENT

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM and SAVANNAH NOLAN
portraits by OLIVIER ZAHM
photography by MARC ASEKHAME
style by LAËTITIA GIMENEZ 

design by creative destruction — burning, torching, ripping, rough-stitching: the young swiss-born, berlin-based design duo constructs experimental clothing without borders or boundaries.

OLIVIER ZAHM — Ottolinger: where does the name come from?
COSIMA GADIENT — Our first studio was in Berlin. We shared a mailbox with an apartment, and we’d receive packages for that name. When we left, we kept the name. It looked good! And it didn’t mean anything.

OLIVIER ZAHM — It’s very German-sounding.
CHRISTA BÖSCH — It’s German, but it also works really well in English, Chinese, Japanese.

OLIVIER ZAHM — What’s it like working as a duo?
CHRISTA BÖSCH — It’s really good to have two people. If one person thinks something is good, and the other not so much, we find…