“Bless No.05 is not a product – it is an opportunity” reads the opening line on the back of the Bless No.05 item’s postcard edition. Bless is style, trust, hypothesis, partnership, and fashion form pioneer. This beautifully designed and weighty book fully illustrates 10 years of experimental fashion and object design by the avant-garde French-German duo Bless. It includes numerous fashion shoot, Bless shop, installation and art images in colour, as well as front and back b+w photo reproductions of Bless product postcards No 00 – No 29. Designed by Manuel Raeder, edited by Desiree Heiss, Ines Kaag, and Manuel Raeder, with contributions by Thimo te Duits, Elein Fleiss, Nakako Hayashi, Stéphanie Moisdon, Ulf Poschardt, Pro qm, Adriano Sack, Barbara Steiner, Olivier Zahm.
Interviews by Manuel Raeder with Nobuyoshi Tamura Shihan, and by Jan Winkelmann with Bless.