Chicks On Speed’s Love Cats scarf

The latest fashion collaboration from Berlin art/music collective Chicks On Speed has been a stunning silk scarf design for art project-cum-label Little Red Riding Hood.

//110cm x 110 cm “Love Cats” silk scarf.//

This is something of a specialist area for LRRH, which has commissioned scarf designs from the likes of Gerhard Blum, popnoname, Anton Unai and Miss le Bomb.

Using the theme “Love Cats”,  CoS – Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan – decorated their LRRH scarf with graphics and appliques. CoS have previously worked with such designers as Jean Charles de Castelbajac, Karl Lagerfeld, Jeremy Scott and Lisa Walker as well as artists Deborah Schamoni (who directed their clips for We Don’t Play Guitars and Glamour Girl) and Douglas Gordon.

Recently Murray-Leslie took part in a performance during Paris Fashion Week:

   

“It’s really exciting when you can no longer distinguish between art and fashion, when the design itself is a piece of art,” says LRRH founder Daniela Goergens. “As Jean-Paul Satre said so eloquently: ‘I am the scarf, I am that outer layer’.”

     

“At the moment we are doing a lot of works for our art shows,” says Alex Murray-Leslie. “These are only available for a few people to see, due to museum shows being less accessible than making music, so sometimes we like to take things off the museum walls and make them more accessible.”

Currently Alex and Melissa are working with Daniela on the first Chicks On Speed collection for winter 2010. “We´d like it to be super accessible, fun and very LOUD,” says Alex. “There´ll be 10 pieces, a lot of accessories and items with our prints.”

For the CoS performance art piece/solo exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre next May, Alex and Melissa also plan to launch “the first wearable E-SHOE high heeled shoe guitar” with Max Kibardin.

They will also be debuting new stage costumes created with Kathi Glas, Ari Fish and Peggy Noland.

With the Chicks On Speed & Friends pop up shop at Changing Room in Barcelona (which travels to Aoyama, Tokyo in 2010), the scarves (priced 90€ / 120€ with appliqués from LRRH) arrive at a hectic time for CoS; their Theremin Tapestry show is currently at Kunstverein Wolfsburg. 

Meanwhile here’s a trip back to 2003 and one of THE LOOK’s faves from CoS (with Peaches) in the days of Nag Nag Nag: