Organic goes High Fashion
by Katharina Withelm posted on February 16, 2009Last week I met my friend Julia Knüpfer, she’s one of the new talented young designers here in Berlin.
It’s been a while since we met last time, (it was on our graduation from ESMOD Berlin last summer, I guess) and since then Julia inspired many people with her work. So now it’s time for some accretive words…
Two weeks ago she convinced the Jury of the Designer for Tomorrow Award which took place at the Berlin Fashion Week, where she arose as winner besides Joel Horwitz. Julia herself was very surprised being announced as winner, but to be honest, I wasn’t!
I loved her collection from the very beginning, which is on the one hand, because I witnessed the whole creative process by myself, and on the other, because Julia’s work is outstanding innovative and completely conclusive.
Her collection ‘Living Rooms’ was inspired by nature and natural habitat as you can see and so is her philosophy.
The whole collection is organic, as Julia simply used organic cotton and wool from biological controlled animal welfare. Besides kitting every woollen piece by herself (including these wonderful tights, the models wore at the ‘Designer forTomorrow’ Show), she also stained all the different jersey on her own.
Julia was up to go into her own business anyway, winning the ‘Designer for Tomorrow Award’ was just another confirmation that she’s on the right way. Of course not to forget the support she gets from now on from Peek und Cloppenburg for her next project, which will also be based on the philosophy of organic clothes.
Currently she’s fixing up her new flat in Berlin Mitte, where she moved in together with her sister (an architecture student, creativity runs in their family) and where a small studio is planned. Besides that Julia is working on a professional web site and of course she’s got plenty of ideas for her new project, which will soon be started.
I’m really looking forward to lots of new enchanting creations and I’m sure Julia is going to show us some amazing stuff.







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