Digital Nightmares

An unfolded laptop shows an image of a person in underwear next to a steamer and a cardboard box with warning tape, while a smartphone next to it shows several overlapping browser windows with a redheaded person in white clothes.Laptop zeigt ein Foto einer Frau mit Fitnessgerät; darunter zeigt ein Smartphone mehrere offene Browser-Tabs mit Bilder einer Frau in weißer Kleidung.
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Life is Pain
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Campaign Development
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Campaign, Content
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2023
Life is Pain is a Berlin-based fashion label positioned beyond classic streetwear clichés. The brand combines a clear, partly experimental formal language with influences from the electronic music scene - raw, pulsating, and always carrying an underlying sense of rebellion. Rather than following trends, Life is Pain translates subculture and urban energy into wearable statements that oscillate between fashion, music, and art.
Zwei iPhones zeigen eine App mit Fotos: links eine Frau, die Eyeliner mit einem großen Messer aufträgt, rechts ein junger Mann, der auf blauem Plastik sitzt, mit Optionen zum Teilen oder Akzeptieren eines Fotos.Zwei Smartphones zeigen eine Mode-Shopping-App, links ein Bild einer Person mit einem Messer, rechts eine Anzeige für eine Lifescapn®-App mit einer sitzenden Person.
For the Fall Collection 2023, we merged fashion and interface - streetwear reflected through the lens of digital reality. The concept was built around the aesthetics of a “digital native” everyday life, captured through the look and feel of the iOS universe. Messages, pop-ups, albums, search windows - familiar digital gestures translated into a visual narrative.
Collage of six smartphone screenshots showing a new photo album creation, a person wearing baggy grey jeans, a fashion catalog with a model holding a laptop, a sharing request for white paint-covered baggy shorts, a text conversation about a plaid shirt, and a woman standing in front of graffiti with large 'PAIN' text overlays.Sechs Smartphone-Bildschirme zeigen verschiedene Schritte einer Mode-Design-App, darunter Alben erstellen, ein Model mit Kleidung fotografieren, Kleidung digital anpassen, Designs speichern, per Nachricht teilen und eine Werbeanzeige mit einem Model vor Grafitti.
This resulted in a visual world in which the collection is not merely presented, but comes to life - between home screen and camera roll, between chat window and search result. An aesthetic exploration of the boundary between online and offline, staging Life is Pain exactly where its audience truly lives: in the digital now.

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