AGONY TROUSERS

Wide-leg trousers with an integrated skirt made from deadstock leftover fabric.
Featuring a belt and front pocket, a zipper, and 4 big buttons to close the front.
 
 
COTTON AND ELASTANE
ONESIZE
MADE IN ZÜRICH
DESIGNED AND SEWN BY AFTER DARK STUDIO
FULL REVENUE WILL BE DONATED TO REDUCE CO2 EMISSIONS
 
 
If Blood is Truth....
„Nature is an orgy of entropic materiality. The excrement, blood of the tortured, and the organic debris the crowd throws at them is turned in rendering vats into a fertile compost which is scattered on the plants, making them vigorous and beautiful, and the plants, in turn, provide a setting for the tortured, generating more blood, excrement and debris. A perfect, little ecosystem.“ 
- The Torture Gaden by Octave Mirbeau
 
Inspired by the beautiful, disgusting work of Mirbeau, this piece reflects a journey through the darker frequencies of the human condition. It explores the „agony of the world“ not as a distant concept, but as the very soil from which our modern reality grows. It is an acknowledgment that something new can only be constructed once we face the wreckage of what came before.
 
The piece shows as a critical reflection of modern colonial legacies. It moves past simple observation to a difficult realization: that we are all inextricably linked to global suffering. The crises are not isolated events. They are part of a shared reality for which we must hold ourselves accountable. To recognize this guilt is the first step towards a necessary, collective responsibility.