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J'ai Mal À La Tête
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J'ai Mal À La Tête
Roman Dorfner

Munich · Germany

Roman Dorfner

“We like to play with stereotypical male images, without neglecting the high standards men demand from their clothing.”

j’ai mal à la tête turns tailoring cloth, the kind meant for suits, into sportswear shapes: virgin wool track pants with a pressed crease, checked wool baseball jackets. Anja and Romans design it that way because menswear lets her work more freely, without weighing whether she would wear a piece herself. Anja had already run the label alone for close to three years, out of a small atelier in Pasing, before putting it on a runway in Munich in 2011, at twenty eight. Roman Dorfner joined in 2012, and the two have run it together from one Munich shop ever since.

I have three questions for you, and something in return.

Three questions.

Selected pieces

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J'ai Mal À La Tête
Trackpants Virgin Wool, Light
€239· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
J'ai Mal À La Tête
Trackpants Cotton-Wool-Linen Blend
€120· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
J'ai Mal À La Tête
Sweater Silk-Cotton Blend, Champagne
€190· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
J'ai Mal À La Tête
Floral Sweater
€115· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price

j'ai mal à la tête Clothing · München, Germany

A crease and a drawstring

j´ai mal à la tête is a Munich menswear label that works tailoring cloth into sportswear shapes, virgin wool trackpants and checked wool baseball jackets. Anja Pawlik and Roman Dorfner have run it from one shop since 2012.

The name is a sentence out of Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet: j´ai mal à la tête et à l´univers. Pawlik and Dorfner read it as a line about too much arriving at once and none of it holding. It is the only literary thing about the label. Everything after it is cloth.

A pink wool jacket, leather gloves, and an armchair to lie back into.

One pair of trousers

The clearest case is a pair of trackpants. Elastic waistband, a drawstring on the inside, two side pockets and one buttoned pocket at the back, and then a crease pressed down the front of each leg. The cloth is a cotton, wool, viscose and linen blend from Italy, green and white with the texture left visible.

The waistband pulls with a drawstring, and the crease runs down the leg.

The same logic runs through the rest. A baseball jacket in checked virgin wool, raglan sleeves, viscose lining. Coats cut oversized, one of them pure cashmere in olive. The fabric almost always comes from Italy, and the coats, jackets and trousers are sewn in Germany.

The cashmere coat in olive, shoulders dropped, sleeves wide.

Things that stay

In the autumn of 2017 the lookbook went out with seahorse earrings, printed neck scarves and a fur tail on a keychain. The earrings and the scarves have gone. The tail is still there, faux fur, brown, on a silver carabiner clip. It keeps turning up in the lookbooks.

The tail on its carabiner, clipped to a burgundy leather pouch.

Season after season, the crease stays pressed and the tail stays on the clip.

The collection

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J'ai Mal À La Tête
Baseball Jacket Disco, Turquoise
€301· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
J'ai Mal À La Tête
Longsleeve Knited Striped, Multicolor
€133· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
J'ai Mal À La Tête
Trackpants Virgin Wool, Mid Night
€249· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
J'ai Mal À La Tête
Sweater Silk-Cotton Blend
€190· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
J'ai Mal À La Tête
Baseball Jacket Virgin Wool Checked
€459· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
J'ai Mal À La Tête
Coat Virgin Wool IWS
€265· ledge pricemeet the maker for the ledge price
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