The human body itself is a tool in our daily life. With the body we can go from place a to place z. We can modify it. Then there are the five senses. With this, fashion should add the fabric’s tactility of the touch and what I think would be wonderful is to include what you have seen in your life, where you have been, your growing up and your personality in your daily wardrobe. Expanding your senses and opening a dialogue through your closet. ‘Challenging’ is a keyword I always put to remember to question ourselves, going in a new direction and to challenge myself in pattern making.

What aspects of the fashion industry would you like to change if you could?

Fashion companies should acknowledge, and the end consumers should be aware that behind each garment there is a person sewing it. Before Covid-19 a lot had to be changed in the fashion industry and a lot of designers had time to rethink their own working-methods and their message they were sending out. I hope we are going to see their thinking steps in real life soon. The pandemic shed lights on wrongdoings like fast fashion companies not paying their orders to their manufactures abroad, seamstresses not paid fairly or losing their job. We cannot accept and allow these happen. In the luxury segments I would love to see great shows and presentations again going back to the era of Thierry Mugler. I think fashion should be fashion and if brands want to create ‘instagrammable’ looks, then they should pollute as little as possible during production and after with their advertisement. Maybe it would be good to recategorize fashion differently and to declare the meaning and the attention behind it. For example “Haute Couture”, fashion from designers with a limited production amount, a category of designer houses creating merchandising for Instagram or selling it online. Also, to keep the human/analogue touch in the communication/visuals is important to me.

What future plans are ahead for Luca Xavier Tanner?

We are very excited to present our first handbag collection this summer. I like designing useable and multifunctional accessories. Working with accessories is going to be a big part of the label. At the end of February we are going to present our new collection in Zurich. For this collection I designed shoes with the traditional Swiss shoe manufacturer Kandahar. The shoes give a nice add to the colour palette and gives a comfortable function.