Andrea Karg

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Andrea Karg (born May 8, 1961 in Düsseldorf ) is a German designer and entrepreneur . She founded the fashion label Allude in 1993 .

Live and act

Karg studied law in Munich . After completing her second state examination, she founded the fashion label Allude GmbH in Munich, which specializes in cashmere wool products , in which she works as artistic director . Karg and her husband, to whom she has been married since 1986, act together as managing directors of the company. Allude has been making cashmere fashion for women since 1993, for men since 2000 and for children since 2004. Her collections are produced in knitting factories in Italy and China. The products are available in over 700 stores in more than 30 countries.

Karg has been represented with her label at the Berlin Fashion Week since 2009 . In March 2012 she was present for the first time at Paris Fashion Week . In 2015 she gave a lecture at a conference on the fashion location Germany and the Berlin Fashion Week organized by Die Zeit .

Karg is a member of the women's advisory board at Hypovereinsbank and has been supporting female company founders on their way to self-employment as a mentor since 2012 .

Publications

  • Allude (ed.) With Berit Grosswendt: Cashmere: Origin, Production and Design. Callwey, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7667-2162-4 .

literature

  • Martina Rink: Fashion Germany. Creatives, stories, trends , translated from English by Mechthild Barth. Prestel, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7913-4888-9 , p. 136 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Head of the fashion label Allude: What does art do, Andrea Karg? , Interview, Monopoly , October 2, 2012
  2. ↑ Inga Griese: "I just wanted to dare something" , Die Welt , December 4, 2011
  3. ↑ Allude , instyle.de, accessed on September 29, 2015
  4. ↑ a b Estelle Marandon: Knitwear from Allude: Kashmir for Paris , Die Zeit , March 9, 2012
  5. ↑ Sabine Hölper: Allude - firm will and finest wool , economy - IHK magazine for Munich and Upper Bavaria 06/2014
  6. ↑ Allude , luxus.welt.de, January 31, 2009, accessed October 1, 2015
  7. ↑ Livia Valensise: Fashion Week Paris: "I can make the world a little more pleasant" , Zeit magazine , October 1, 2014
  8. ↑ Alfons Kaiser: Paris Fashion Week: Prêt-à-porter from the backyard , FAZ , September 30, 2013
  9. ↑ DIE ZEIT publishing group. In: www.zeit-konferenz.de. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Who we are. The members of the HVB Women's Council. ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2016 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. Retrieved June 19, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / about.hypovereinsbank.de
  11. ^ Nicole Ehlert: Your mentor in June 2012: Andrea Karg , emotion , June 2012
  12. ↑ Interview with Andrea Karg ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2015 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. , Entrepreneurship Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.entrepreneurship-center.uni-muenchen.de
personal data
SURNAME Karg, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf