Back to the previous collection, Don ́t Tell The World That We Know 2012:
Five characters that could not be more different towards each other, but still pursue a common goal:
Bare survival, that forces them to stick together and to fight their way through a bleak and hopeless apocalypse.
One of these characters – apart from the Dandy, the Saint,
the Mutant, and the Soldier – is female and previously known by the brittle synonym of the Escapee.
The latest SCHAAF collection deals with the atmosphere after the threat of food shortages, other human survivors, and animals. We are looking into the future and focus on the character Escapee.

Escapee, in her previous life, had escaped from various arrests several times. This, alongside her ability to open doors and to overcome obstacles, made her an important contribution to the group during the period of survival.
She was quick-witted, possibly very violent and always had been quite schizophrenic. But the omnipresent pressure of the struggle to survive left their marks: Every now and then she slipped into being a little girl, just to rip off an opponent’s head the moment after.

Years later, she quietly lives in a former greenhouse, far away from the others and the feeling of constant threat in their company. For the first time in her life, she is feeling peace. The world has slowly recovered, and there hardly are any people, flora and fauna are starting to grow gradually.
Sitting there now she has an incredible amount of time to think and do what she previously would have never dared dreaming of.
She cultivates crops and teaches a raven how to talk. She delves into classic literature and practices in mentally moving of objects.

Her guardian, a trained wolf, has not much purpose to fulfill and is only waiting to chase away bears that tiredly pass by from time to time.
An intact Internet connection enables to connect to the matrix of our ancient world. She loves beaming objects out of this long gone period into her glass house: Cuban cigars, scotch whiskey or pets. And sometimes it is simply fun to shoot her kalashnikov. However, while hunting she prefers using a slingshot.

But besides these old habits there suddenly mingles a delicate feeling that she knows from an early stage of her life. A feeling she had learned to suppress long ago: A desire to simply be a girl. She remembers a time when she dreamt of being a princess, floating by in voluminous dresses before pastel coloured palaces. Such forgotten fantasies were displaced by a weighted childhood – but they are still subconsciously present and can impossibly be crucified completely.

SCHAAF’s new collection 2013 tells the tales of different thoughts and actions of Venus Metallica – the name the Ecsapee now gave herself.
The hardness of her armor-like leather rig and the generally heavy materials of the 2012 collection are now being exchanged for soft pastel shades, light tulle and softer technical materials. The silhouettes are dramatically softer, bulkier – in the end, more feminine!

Although, black shades stay as a reminder of her experiences, whilst leather has almost completely disappeared.
Functionality as an eternal feature of SCHAAF is now used in a more playfully sense: Some parts can be varied by rough zippers.
The collection runs through a constant interplay between symmetry and asymmetry, thus setting self-confident highlights for itself.

Venus Metallica is a logical progression of the 2012 collection. The woman dressed in SCHAAF appears quite feminine, delicate and almost dreamy. Her futuristic looks give her strength, aloofness and mere self-confidence. She is casual, extremely cool, and very sexy. The observer wants to touch her – but there’s no chance to get her, is there?