Berlin’s Friedrichstadt-Palast has conscripted American dressmaker Jeremy Scott for its subsequent cabaret-style revue, slated to debut on Sept. 24.
Scott is to create some 500 costumes for the theatre’s newest Grand Present, titled “Blinded by Delight” and billed as “a reminder of happiness that overwhelms all of the senses.”
Friedrichstadt-Palast lauded the American designer’s “distinctive aptitude for style” and the way he “fuses high fashion and popular culture to provide fascinating items.”
“Trend is, for me, a type of escapism to a different world – a spot the place you’ll be able to overlook your troubles and worries, at the very least in the course of the present,” Scott stated. “My designs are crammed with desires, inspiration, and a great deal of love that I hope will encourage, delight and enchant the creativeness of the friends.”
A sketch of a few of the costumes for “Blinded by Delight” designed by Jeremy Scott.
Courtesy of Friedrichstadt-Palast
Scott follows within the well-known footsteps of Jean Paul Gaultier, curator and visible design director of the Friedrichstadt-Palast’s present mega present “Falling | In Love,” which is slated to wind up its practically two-year run this summer time.
Half Moulin Rouge, half Cirque du Soleil, half rock live performance, the “grand reveals” served up by Friedrichstadt-Palast contain greater than 100 performers, together with singers, dancers and acrobats who make full use of the largest stage in Europe.
Scott, who logged an acclaimed 10-year stint as inventive director of Moschino in Milan earlier than stepping down in 2023, isn’t any stranger to theatrics, having as soon as made the Moschino runway resemble an enormous American recreation present like “The Worth is Proper,” full with home equipment and vehicles as prizes.
“Blinded by Delight” boasts a manufacturing finances estimated at practically 14 million euros. Friedrichstadt-Palast is a state theater, owned by the Metropolis of Berlin.
A rendering of the stage design for “Blinded by Delight.”
Courtesy of Friedrichstadt-Palast
Since exiting Moschino, Scott has logged just a few collaborations with SpoiledChild, the hair and skincare model launched by Oddity in 2022.
A graduate of the Pratt Institute, the Missouri-born Scott launched his personal signature model in Paris in 1997. It’s been on hiatus since 2019.
He has additionally labored with manufacturers together with Linda Farrow, Longchamp, Swatch and Good, and is thought for his eccentric Adidas Originals creations, incorporating teddy bears, cow prints and even leopard tails into his sneaker line.
In the course of the pandemic, he flexed his muscle tissues as a filmmaker. For his males’s and girls’s Moschino resort 2022 assortment, he directed model-turned-songstress Karen Elson in a musical filmed on the Common Studios backlot in Los Angeles decked out as a jukebox diner.