Styling/ Design

Rick Owens SS25 – Metal Structure and Performance

For this iconic collaboration with Rick Owens, Ylva Falk worked as both designer and performer, bridging architecture, movement, and ritual.

Drawing from an initial concept by Rick, Ylva designed and developed the monumental metal structure that became the central element of the show – a living sculpture embodying strength, transformation, and collective force.

She cast and movement-directed the team of performers, guiding them through an embodied process that merged discipline, strength, and surrender. As part of the performance herself, Ylva wove physicality and presence into the structure, dissolving the line between human and form.

The result was a moment in fashion history – a fusion of body, metal, and spirit, where performance became architecture and art became invocation.

Ceramics & Textile Practice

Ylva Falk’s work in ceramics and textiles explores the relationship between craft, design, and material transformation. She creates lamps, vessels, carpets, and textile panels that merge functionality with expressive form.

Her process combines traditional techniques such as eco-printing, vegetable dyeing, indigo, and cyanotype, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. The resulting pieces evoke both ancient artifacts and futuristic organisms, balancing raw tactility with a refined sense of light and space.

Collaboration plays a central role in Falk’s practice. Working closely with architects, lighting designers, and product developers, she extends her materials into spatial contexts, exploring how texture and illumination can shape atmosphere and perception.

Her ceramic and textile works form a continuous dialogue between tradition and innovation, reflecting her ongoing interest in how craft can evolve into new, poetic expressions of contemporary design.

Costume Design for Scenatet

Mémorian (2022) & Lohengrin (2024) — Copenhagen

For the experimental opera ensemble Scenatet, Ylva Falk created costume designs for Mémorian (2022) and Lohengrin (2024) — two visionary productions where sound, movement, and image merged into living performance.

Rooted in her lifelong connection to fashion and transformation, Ylva approaches costume as an extension of identity and spirit — a skin between the inner and outer world. Having made her own clothing since childhood, she brings a distinct sense of style, symbolism, and metamorphosis to her design process.

Working with upcycled fabrics, natural materials, plant-based dyes, and off-cut textiles, she transforms discarded materials into poetic, functional garments. Each piece carries traces of touch and time — combining craftsmanship, sustainability, and ritual aesthetics.

Her work with Scenatet reflects a dialogue between ecological awareness and avant-garde expression: costumes that breathe, evolve, and perform as much as the bodies within them. In Lohengrin, her designs expanded beyond attire into sculptural presence — merging movement, myth, and material into one living form.

Through this collaboration, Ylva continues her exploration of clothing as transformation — a language of freedom, renewal, and connection to the natural world.

Lohengrin

Memoriam

“MEMORIAM is worlds of three-dimensional extension, soundscapes and curved textiles” – Bastard Blog

Costume design by Ylva Falk ,Costume production by K.j Dan ,Jewellery in collaboration with House of Malakai

Memoriam credits:

Music and text: Niels Rønsholdt
Concept and stage direction: Niels Rønsholdt, Tim Matiakis and Anna Berit Asp Christensen
Choreography: Tim Matiakis
Dancer: Marie Kaae Schmidt
Scenatet: Signe Asmussen (soprano), Mathias Monrad Møller (tenor), Anna Jalving (violin, viola), Katrine Grarup Elbo (violin), Matias Seibæk (percussion)
Lighting design: Jonatan Winbo
Costumes, styling, make up and hair design: Ylva Falk
Make-up and hair assistant: Leila Belangeon Bouaziz
Assisting producer: Christine Walther Sørensen
Artistic director: Anna Berit Asp Christensen
The performance is created in close collaboration between all of the above.
Memoriam is initiated, commissioned, and produced by Scenatet.
Video documentation: AdeY

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