Akris
| Akris AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1922 |
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St. Gallen Switzerland
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| management | Albert Kriemler , designer; Peter Kriemler, CEO; Marcel Krug, CCO |
| Number of employees | about 550 |
| Branch | Fashion |
| Website | www.akris.ch |
Akris is a Swiss fashion house founded in St. Gallen in 1922 , which offers high-quality women's clothing and accessories. The brand's distinguishing features are trapezoidal design elements derived from the "A", for example when closing bags and belts. In addition to double face, Akris St. Gallen also uses embroidery and digital photo prints.
history
The company was founded in St. Gallen by Alice Kriemler-Schoch, from whose initials the name of the company is derived. It expanded under the direction of her son Max Kriemler (1922-2017) and his wife Ute Kriemler-Winkhaus. In 1980 their son Albert Kriemler took over the creative management, his younger brother Peter Kriemler has been responsible for the management since 1987.
Akris is a member of the Fédération française de la couture, du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des créateurs de mode and employs around 550 people, including around 400 in Switzerland. As a private company, Akris does not publish any specific sales or earnings figures. About 30 percent of sales are generated in Europe and Asia and 40 percent in the USA. The company is valued at $ 500 million. The company produces in Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino ; Cocktail and evening dresses are made in studios in Zurich .
Akris products have been worn by Charlène von Monaco , Alicia Keys , Angelina Jolie , Nicole Kidman and Susan Sarandon , Amal Clooney , Doris Leuthard and Condoleezza Rice, and Marissa Mayer and Melinda Gates . At the presentation of the Star Award by the Fashion Group International (FIG) to Albert Kriemler in 2010 in New York, Stefano Tonchi, editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine “W” gave the laudatory speech.
In her speech on the 90th anniversary of the fashion house in Paris in 2012, Federal Councilor Doris Leuthard, who is responsible for the Swiss economy, described Albert Kriemler's collections as "global ambassadors for Switzerland", they stand for "creativity and innovation".
In 2007 the Textile Museum in St. Gallen showed the exhibition “Akris - Internationally Noticed Fashion from St. Gallen”. Albert Kriemler designed more than 60 costumes for John Neumeier's ballet Josephs Legende , which was performed in Hamburg in 2008.
In 2013, the Bavarian National Museum in Munich included Akris' first horsehair bag, the "Ai Bag", in the exhibition "Bags - A European Cultural History from the 16th to the 21st Century".
The exhibition "Women Fashion Power" at the Design Museum London from October 2014 to March 2015 was dedicated to the role of fashion for women in prominent positions. In this context, three Akris dresses by Princess Charlène of Monaco were on display.
literature
- Valerie Steele : Akris . Assouline, 2012, ISBN 978-1-61428-056-9 .
- Daniel Binswanger , In the beginning was the stuff , Tages-Anzeiger, Das Magazin, Tamedia AG, Zurich, 46/2008, p. 18
- Silvia Aeschbach, Renata Libal, Raffinierte Klasse , Tages-Anzeiger, Encore, Tamedia AG Zurich, September 2013, p. 19
- Jolanda Spirig : The apron seamstresses. The factory owner and the Kriessner “girls” Chronos, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-0340-1143-3 .
- Christoph Doswald (Ed.): Akris . JRP Ringier, 2007, ISBN 978-3-905770-23-0 .
Web links
- Akris AG website
- Christina Hubbeling, Silent Star from St. Gallen , NZZ Zurich, March 18, 2012: [1]
- Stefanie Schütte, Rather Relaxed , dpa Hamburg, October 3, 2012: [2]
- Sarah Rüegger: Girls as industrial material . In: Tages-Anzeiger of December 10, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Akris AG. (No longer available online.) Commercial Register of the Canton of St. Gallen, formerly the original ; Retrieved May 7, 2014 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Textilwirtschaft.de October 27, 2016
- ↑ Cult Fashion House Akris . September 2010. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
- ↑ http://madame.lefigaro.fr/defiles/akris/automne-hiver-2014-2015/pret-porter-0/825998/compte-rendu
- ↑ Max Kriemler has died. In: St. Galler Tagblatt from November 28, 2017.
- ^ Valerie Steele : Akris . Assouline, 2012
- ↑ Akris: Sponsoring politicians would be too tricky . Trade newspaper . Retrieved on June 26, 2009. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fashion Sense . www.washingtonpost.com. Retrieved June 25, 2009.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.fashionwiredaily.com/first_word/media/article.weml?id=3387
- ↑ Where the princess is happy . Schweizer Illustrierte. October 8, 2012. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
- ↑ Akris dances on the Hamburg stage In: Bolero , issue 09/2008 fashion magazine page 64
- ^ Repertoire of the Hamburg Ballet
- ↑ Akris invited to the Bavarian National Museum in Munich
- ↑ Harper's BAZAAR UK, Working Wardrobe: Akris x Design Museum Capsule Collection: Online
- ↑ Dan Howarth, Zaha Hadid "pretty much chose herself" to design Women Fashion Power exhibition, dezeen magazine, October 28, 2014: Online
