SF 1 | “St Gallen Lace” exhibition
The St Gallen Textile Museum is devoting a special exhibition to five hundred years of embroidery, curated by a two-man team from Jakob Schlaepfer, its creative director Martin Leuthold and Bernhard Duss of Bambola. It has already featured in a report on the Swiss television news programme Tagesschau. Watch video in german (1'54")
This is the first time the museum has displayed its collection in all its richness, proving that St Gallen lace was always in a class of its own – and still is. The lounge of the StGall exhibition is furnished with printed wall coverings and carpets made specially by Jakob Schlaepfer. Visitors can sit on an imaginative range of multi-layered lace.
The “StGall” exhibition runs from 26 March to 30 December 2011.
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger | Eye-catching Walls
It’s like “stroking a fish backwards” wrote Hannah Schneider in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger about Jakob Schlaepfer’s wall covering “Pollock Stripe” which amazed visitors to the “Pure Village” segment at the imm Cologne 2011 international furnishings show.
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DRS 1 | Martin Leuthold on Coco Chanel
On January 11 Swiss radio’s first channel broadcast a 95 minute programme entitled “Coco Chanel’s Legacy” to mark the 40th anniversary of the death of the influential fashion designer, which included a contribution from Jakob Schlaepfer’s creative director Martin Leuthold.
www.drs1.ch (from 51:10)
Schöner Wohnen | Haute (Interior) Couture
In the December number of the home decoration magazine “Schöner Wohnen Schweiz” editor Hans Uli von Erlach presents an illustrated feature on Jakob Schlaepfer’s Décor Collection under the above headline.
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Weltwoche | Style & Culture
“Swiss fabrics and designers are players in the world league”, writes Daniele Muscionico in her Weltwoche article on the Zurich Fashion Days and sings the praises of “the star, Martin Leuthold, art director of Jakob Schlaepfer in St Gallen, a man whom Hollywood would long ago have honoured in its ‘Walk of Fame’.”
www.weltwoche.ch
Du | Sophisticated Fabrics
The theme of the October edition of the Swiss cultural magazine “Du” is “Sophisticated Fabrics – When Tradition is Back in Fashion”, and under the headline “The Textile Magicians” it carries a nine-page interview with Jakob Schlaepfer designer Martin Leuthold and Albert Kriemler of Akris.
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Madame | Impact, Swiss made
The German journal «Madame» features three Schlaepfer fans: the couturiers Barbara Lohmann, Johnny Talbot and Adrian Runhof. Among other things it quotes them as saying: “The dresses that round off our shows are always made from Schlaepfer fabrics”.
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