ffiXXed is a collaborative art and design project initiated by Australian artist/designers Kain Picken and Fiona Lau in Berlin, February 2008. Since then the ffiXXed headquarters has remained mobile, gravitating to whatever global centres, in no particular order. Their focus is the production of a unisex, prêt a porter fashion label, which develops between a range of other art and design related activities.
ffiXXed often use the framework of fashion to participate in a wider discussion about new possibilities for the consumption and production of contemporary culture. The ffiXXed collections respond to the role clothing and objects play in constructing our daily lives, elaborating a series of new and unexpected forms of trans-functionality for every-day basics. They utilise natural fibres and highly personalised production techniques to address, transcend and stimulate a variety of social and domestic situations.
In February 2010, after moving between studio spaces in Berlin, Hong Kong, New York and Melbourne, they established their own in-house production studio in Shenzhen, China - one of the world’s fastest growing cities. Here they have developed a unique, multifunctional living/working space that shifts around the needs of various ffiXXed activities.
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