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The Academy of fine Arts in Nuremberg invited me for a lecture to discuss my work and the hard lessons learned along my journey from an idealist art school kid entering the world of business.

Merging performance and style: Relaunch for the Parisian online store SportyHenri. I was happy to be rebuilding the creative strategy for the brand & website

First sight of the new look for the iconic fashion label CLOSED is now to be seen in their online presence — New online store, new look and new brand direction.

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Blonde Magazine visited my treehouse to discuss the meaning of freedom, nature and home. If you are a fellow Deutschlander, read the full interview here...

The Australian publication visited Berlin and met me for a little designer-to-designer chat.

The latest Fall/Winter collection 2015 of Isabell de Hillerin highlights textures, subtle tones and beautiful clean cuts. This Berlin based label provides masculine shapes with feminine textures and elaborate embroideries handcrafted by Romanian artisans. 

For Sutor Mantellassi the shoes are not an element representing certain fashion but rather, communication of a bold standing. The man is seen as a statue, his shoes as leather sculptures. These sculptures are bespoke and made-to-measure in exclusive materials with iconic blue soles. The refreshed approach is a mixture of classic male elegance with surreal quirkiness, nostalgia with a contemporary take...

Glamour made in Germany is the motto of the established brand Kaviar Gauche. The two designers answered a couple of questions before their show. 

"The collection, as usual, includes feminine and seductive, yet modern fairytail dresses. Our vision was clear from the beginning: Again a composition of evening and outstanding bridal couture."

A new-comer on the fashion scene, CAPARA from Belgium shows for the first time in Berlin.

"The vision of this collection is to combine different layers of shoulder pieces, our trademark, such as coats, jacket and bombers and create a new look. The main focus will go on all those sorts of shoulder pieces. They all come in own developed colours, materials such as inkjet prints, screen prints, jacquards, matelassés, etc. We were inspired by Viviane Sassen for colours and material mixes, by Katharina Grosse for screen prints, by flemish renaissance Painter Pieter Brueghel for shapes, inkjet print and matelassé."

Guggenheim Helsinki should become an innovative, multidisciplinary museum of art and design presenting internationally significant exhibitions of artworks from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries while also specialising in Nordic art and architecture. The Guggenheim Institute invited architects from all around the world to partake in creating a concept for the future Museum...

The Gaabs are proudly presenting themselves with 13 meters of print as Visual Leader nominees of 2014. Their work with I Love You and Endless, as well as their brilliant projects as creative agency got the jury's full attention so we made sure that they won't be left unnoticed by the 30.000 visitors in this 1.000sqm space...

How to market exclusive products and services in an ever-changing environment — Design work for a book on luxury branding for Roland Berger written by authors Martin Wittig, Fabian Sommerrock, Philip Beil and Markus Albers for your coffee table. 

"Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Sie wurden aufgrund Ihrer außergewöhnlichen Leistung für die Teilnahme am Newcomer Award des German Design Award 2015 nominiert..."

If you are going to Art Basel go take a look at VitraHaus! I made the first floor exhibition concept for the Gaabs — in collaboration with SevilPeach Architects

Outfit observations in Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin: Spot the trend-hungry bloggers (A), the politically correct fashion professional (B), the over-confident fashion native (C) and the dragged-in lost souls (D)...