Dazed Magazineのインスタグラム(dazed) - 6月16日 00時27分

"The last time I went to a Meadham Kirchhoff show, I cried. It was 2014 and I was in a Soho basement, which had been draped with ephemeral fabrics and bloodied tampons, filled with the familiar scent of Tralala: the perfume that they created with Penhaligon that same year.
On each of our seats was a photocopied zine, instructing us all to “reject everything” and neatly arranging both @edwardmeadham and @mrbenjaminkirchhoff’s loves and hates (love: Viv Albertine, hate: LVMH) into parallel, hand-written columns. It was all the theatre, politics and provocation that had established the creative duo as two of London’s most beloved fashion figureheads – and that’s before the latex, BodyMap-meets-Westwood clothes arrived on the runway to the sounds of Ru Paul and Marilyn Manson.
Over the past year, the brand has stopped making clothes. Following a turbulent period, the two designers were forced from their studio and had their archive confiscated by the subsequent occupier. All legal disputes aside (the past 12 months have been somewhat riddled with them), what this means is that the Meadham Kirchhoff archive – the disturbingly glamourous pieces from the gothic early years, the Riot Grrrl bodysuits from the later ones, and all those fabulous bits in between – have vanished. Now, curator Shonagh Marshall has worked with them to select around 50 pieces that will become an archive to be donated to museums, but they have been priced at £15,000: a figure that the duo are trying to raise through a GoFundMe campaign so that they can buy back 12 years of work.
To find out how you can help save the Meadham Kirchhoff archive head to dazeddigital.com/fashion.
Words @oliviajsinger, Photography @leacolombo

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