BERLIN, Germany — The upcycling fashion brand founded by Argentine sisters Angie & Poli Aguirre, based in Argentina and Berlin, tHERAPY Recycle & Exorcise presented its highly anticipated new collection and conceptual show, „Dystopian Games.

Deconstructing the armour“, on Sunday, July 5th. The launch took place at the cultural venue MAAYA Berlin (RAW Gelände) as one of the highlights of the multidisciplinary event
PassePar2. Performing in front of a packed audience during the second runway block of the day, the Berlin-based brand delivered a powerful aesthetic and political manifesto against the violent
oppression of a system that demands absolute homogeneity and forced optimization.

17 Players in a Ruthless Arena
Visually inspired by the collision between the iconic cyberpunk poetry of Blade Runner’s Roy Batty—capturing the melancholy of beauty melting away „like tears in rain“—and a ruthless, dystopian arena focused entirely on extreme productivity, the collection brought 17 models („players“) to the runway.
The show served as a parodic protest against the corporate machinery of the World Cup, the bio-technological coercion of the Enhanced Games, and the current proliferation of weight-loss and performance drugs. tHERAPY ironized textiles created as tools of control by twisting high-performance athletic codes alongside the restrictive anatomy of corsetry and shapewear garments. The extreme silhouettes exposed the dark reality of a society that pressures individuals to alter their biology to fit external standards.

Textile Subversion and Autonomy Through Upcycling

True to its core philosophy of zero waste and circularity, tHERAPY Recycle & Exorcise executed the ultimate subversion of mass production in this collection. Rather than extracting new resources to feed a relentless corporate machine, the design team stripped down, reconstructed, and ironized existing athletic uniforms and shapewear. By giving these textiles a new, defiant life, the 17 bodies on stage mocked the corporate demand for perfection and reclaimed their autonomy.

photos: Marcel Wittstadt