Designer's Voice Martin Leuthold

Photo: Koelnmesse, Lutz Sternstein

When is it okay for fashion to influence furniture design?
Fashion is a source of inspiration for the whole visual, constantly changing world. Fashion has the possibility of reinventing itself every season. Fashion is short-lived, it’s trendy, and it has very little to do with beauty. We only recognise the true beauties of fashion years later, when we see them in a photo album. Architecture and art, but also interior design, are a longer-term thing, they’re given a lot more thought than fashion. Fashion is a bit like an experimental kitchen, where you can try things out and then discard them again; either they go by the board or they end up on the catwalk.

Martin Leuthold talks about:

• the workshop
• influences on the design
• the imm cologne
• fashion and interior design