
Rudiger: The idea behind Additional is to have a parasitic brand that attaches to things instead of making our own products. Our parasitic textile consists of a red thread and a label. Most of the components are taken from regular retail shops, so anyone can copy it, and thereby help spread it. We don’t want Additional to be limited to fashion. It should spread to text, architecture, and sound, too. You were part of the DesignMai festival in Berlin this year doing something called “textile terror.” What was that all about?
Additional and another fashion designer named Florinda Schnitzel usually do rather polite “stitching on demand,” but for DesignMai we teamed up and hacked into a vintage workshop, creating “textile terror”! The results were then sold at Galeries Lafayette, the big department store in Paris, so you could say we hacked them, too. But the distinction between hacking into and being swallowed by a host is sometimes hard to define. Momus