Interview on the subject of “Beige” for the social and cultural magazine “Fleisch”
Are you still there?
Many have already worked their way through the color beige and its demographic distribution. Cabaret artists, feature writers, impatient secondary school pupils at supermarket checkouts. It even has its own word: Rentnerbeige. But most style critiques don’t go beyond the mere observation that old people like to wear this “non-color” and a “haha”. That is regrettable. Because beige reveals so much about us, about supply and demand, about life and death – yes, if not everything.
Beige does nothing that real non-colors do. Black absorbs all light, white reflects all light, but beige does neither. Beige happens when body lotion dries on the edges, old building doors close on a hundred or a lot of cigarettes cling to hotel walls for a very long time. Beige looks like oatmeal tastes and recycled toilet paper smells. A dirty white, eternally white and delicate at the same time like an elderflower, which cannot be a coincidence. The only question that remains is: why do people dress like this?
