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"Ikou-Tschüss is Guya Marini and Carmen D'Apollonio. Both second-generation Italians, both born and raised in Zürich, Guya and Carmen have been friends for the entire millennium. Guya is Paris and Zürich based; while Carmen travels between Zürich and New York. In the beginning, the two would meet every summer in Zürich and exchange ideas, but the lack of proximity kept their collaboration from coming immediately to fruition. Guya stayed active in Paris, doing her styling; Carmen, in Zürich and sometimes New York, was kept busy as the invaluable assistant to Swiss artist Urs Fischer. Then, meeting up again in the beginning of 2006, the two decided to focus exclusively on making handmade knitwear and croched silk foulards. Guya showed the pieces to her friend Livio and Stephan from the Parisian press office, Public Image. Livio and Stephan were instantly taken with the knitwear and in their excitement planted the seeds for what was soon to become Ikou-Tschüss, demanding that Guya and Carmen formally create a label for the work they had brought in."

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