Meet Dethaus | Design Art House

We had the good fortune of connecting with Dethaus and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Dethaus, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
⁃ We wanted to start a new dialogue in fashion by re-contextualizing and bringing new art forms into the fashion industry as minority luxury designers.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
Please tell us more about your art:

⁃ Dethaus is a design art house that specializes in design with high luxury fashion, music, and film by way of “Impressionistic Constructions” and “Intellectual Montages.”

We’d love to hear what sets you apart from others?

⁃ Besides being a minority-owned luxury brand, we try to focus on more of the design aspect of the house. Rather than doing four collections a year, we’ve decided to make a collection with multiple art forms in limited quantities. We believe it’s better for sustainability.

– We avoid globalized production that is outsourced at low cost to encompassing areas where wages are low. We aim to build up the community around us and fight the ongoing battle against discrimination.

– We only work with high-quality natural materials and have unrivaled craftsmanship from our atelier when it comes to leather. Which makes us a rarity in the top 1% of one of the world’s most lucrative professions.
– Most companies tend to make clothing for the artist, whereas we are the artist. This allows us to tell a cohesive storyline throughout our collections.

What you are most proud of or excited about?

⁃ We are really excited about the future, not only for our brand but for Fashion in general. We’ve been looking forward to putting together our new bag collection, shoe collection, small leather goods, small silk goods, and our album for this new collection.

– The thing we’re looking forward to is entering the retail space, our Hype-Art Jacket project that is currently in the works, and one day showcasing our garments at Paris Fashion Week.

How did you get to where you are today professionally?

⁃ Honestly, we’ve just put in a lot of hard work and focus. We’ve been consistent in believing in the process by compounding the art/design every day.

Was it easy?

⁃ Not at all, but we love what we do.

If not, how did you overcome the challenges?

⁃ We face new challenges every day, but we continue to study the history, art, and craft, of modern designers as well as designers before our time. This allows us to be more prepared and think more rationally, easing any overwhelming emotions that challenges may bring.

What are the lessons you’ve learned along the way?

⁃ We’ve learned the importance of value and knowing your own self-worth, don’t let others around you influence or dictate who you are.

⁃ When you invest everything into the art of self-expression, you become the embodiment of the art form itself.

⁃ There are no lines to wait in, just start at what you want. Whether you feel the idea is good or bad, you need to just make it.

What do you want the world to know about you or your brand and story?

⁃ As a minority-owned luxury brand in the fashion industry, we can inspire cultural communities to be more than the box the world puts on us.

– The Earth is a brain and humans are the start of the universe waking up.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever, Where would you take them?

⁃ Definitely a mansion party, they can tend to show you what can be obtained and achieved. Plus they are fun.

Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week-long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc?

⁃ We’d find a nice lake to chill by. There’s a small place in Beverly Hills. Then we’d pick up lunch from any of the fine Latin restaurants in LA. Afterward, stop by the Roosevelt hotel for a couple of drinks and conversation.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
Our Families, Virgil Abloh, Alexander McQueen, Martin Margiela, Rei Kawakubo, Yayoi Kusama.

Website: dethaus.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dethausla

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Image Credits
David Ruelas, Camilo Almeida.