Stéphanie Baechler

Baechler is an applied artist with focus on textile and fashion. Trained at HSLU Lucerne University of Applied Arts with a Fashion Masters degree from the ArtEZ Arnhem Netherlands. She worked as a Textile Developer / Design Assistant for Hussein Chalayan in London and was the head of print design for renown textile company Jakob Schlaepfer. Baechler‘s work investigates fashion‘s formal and structural vocabulary, its production process and its complex relationship to the body, the self and society. Currently her work intends to question and research the motivations leaning under people’s perpetual need for approval in today’s ubiquitous social media landscape. Through her work with textiles, embroidery and ceramics Baechler investigates the sensual experience that has become increasingly rare through today technologies.