Code Breakers

Berlin fashion collective Standard Clothing is redefining everyday dressing.

While other young brands may draw their inspiration from street culture or the club scene, Standard Clothing, a new womenswear label based in Berlin, takes its aesthetic lead – and its name – from a more unusual place: Standard Möbel, a German furniture company co-founded by Marcel Breuer in 1927 (and bought by Thonet a few years later). ‘I have always had a fascination with the Bauhaus philosophy,’ says Nam Nguyen, the 25-year-old fashion designer who launched Standard Clothing last year. ‘The idea of multipurpose design still feels relevant, even 100 years after it was first conceived.’