Designer Teddy Sanches was still a student at École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle – Les Ateliers in Paris when his Envahisseurs Battle – a new genre of hip-hop battle at the interface of design and dance – took over Centre Pompidou. Graduating in 2019, this was also the year he won the Audi Talents prize for the film and happening he developed around this project, whose theme is the circle. Hip-hop is his constant companion, serving as a fertile playground for the needs of tomorrow’s world, and as a way of fusing scenography with urban cultures. In summer 2021, Sanches held an exhibition and performance weekend at Palais de Tokyo.
He is a co-founder of the Hall Haus designers’ group. For their À l’Oeuvre residency at Fondation Lafayette Anticipations in Paris, the group created the Curry Mango folding chair, designed to represent their identity.
Project
Envahisseurs, Tenues 01 (Invaders, Outfits 01)
When travelling in Japan, Teddy Sanches was struck by the pastel-coloured, loose-fitting trousers worn by construction workers, who are a constant presence amidst the continual movement of the Japanese streets. Hip-hop culture having reappropriated workwear right from the start, Sanches immediately wanted to incorporate these trousers into urban dance. While the style codes are different, the heritage is the same, driving Sanches to explore the world of Japanese workwear in search of the ideal hip-hop dance clothes. In 2022, during the first part of his residency, Sanches created his Collages, a mix of builders’ work clothes and traditional textiles given to him by craftspeople during his visits. For the second part, in 2023, he focused on denim, working with different natural dyeing techniques such as indigo and yomogi, stencil dyeing (katazome) and nishijin weaving. For this, Sanches collaborated with artisans he had met the previous year, encouraging them to adapt their usual practice, for example by asking the katazome specialist to adopt the aesthetic of Nigeria’s adire, which employs a similar technique.
Portrait : ©Deicy Sanches
-1 Teddy Sanches (Envahisseurs) – KTS KATAZOME ©Teddy Sanches
-2 Deicy Sanches (Envahisseurs) – IN BETWEEN ©Villa Kujoyama
-3 Teddy Sanches (Envahisseurs) – CASE STUDIES ©Teddy Sanches
-4 Teddy Sanches (Envahisseurs) – KTS NISHIJIN ©Ema Okamoto
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