Anja Gockel

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Anja Gockel

Anja Gockel (born May 16, 1968 in Mainz ) is a German fashion designer .

Career

Anja Gockel studied fashion design at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London from 1987 to 1995 . From 1995 to 1996 she worked for Vivienne Westwood and created the line h 'by Carlotta h'Glesse. Since 1996 she has her own fashion label Anja Gockel London for women's fashion with a red cockscomb as the company logo .

Her poetically dreamy, mostly happy and colorful fashion is internationally recognized and has been shown at many fashion fairs and is sold in boutiques worldwide. Her customers include celebrities like Queen Silvia of Sweden . Anja Gockel dresses presenters and artists such as Ann-Kathrin Kramer , Barbara Schöneberger , Mina Tander and Marietta Slomka . She provided the final show for Germany's Next Top Model by Heidi Klum three times and she was there live twice. First, the designer flew to Los Angeles for a fourth season shoot; In 2010 Klum and her young models came to Berlin for Gockel's fashion show. Internationally successful supermodels like Alek Wek also work for the German label, which was able to grow even in the crisis year 2010. In 2014 she took part in the Beijing Chic Beijing trade fair for the first time . In 2016 she celebrated the 20th birthday of her fashion label at Berlin Fashion Week . In January 2017, Anja Gockel was named Designer of the Year 2017 by the Network of German Fashion & Textile Designers. At the same time, her fashion show took place for the first time during the Berlin fashion week in the lobby of the Hotel Adlon Kempinski at the Brandenburg Gate.

Anja Gockel works in Mainz. She is married and has four children.

Awards

  • 1994: winner of the Philip Morris Competition Parliament of Fashion
  • 2007 and 2008: Winner of the Creativity Award (USA)
  • 2012: Awarded the Golden Silk Bow
  • 2017: Designer of the Year (VDMD)
  • 2018: Ambassador for design and fashion culture

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page of the German Academic Exchange Service about the former scholarship holder Anja Gockel , accessed on January 15, 2014
  2. ↑ Ingrid Loschek : Fashion Designer: A Lexicon from Armani to Yamamoto. , Section about Anja Gockel, CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 9783406564925 , p. 97
  3. ↑ a b Anja Gockel - No desire for patchwork by Alfons Kaiser in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from July 21, 2006
  4. ↑ Anja Gockel bought children's fashion bigger and bigger.
  5. ↑ a b Making everyday life a sensation ( Memento from March 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Article by Ingrid Loschek on the website of the Goethe Institute
  6. ↑ Anja Gockel is Sweden's court tailor ( memento from February 19, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Article in the ARD magazine Brisant from February 4, 2003
  7. ↑ Sunday morning encounters - Pastor Annette Bassler meets Anja Gockel, fashion designer, Mainz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Article in SWR1 on June 8, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirche-im-swr.de
  8. ^ Website of the 4th season of Germany's Next Topmodel
  9. ^ Shrill photo shoot article in Gala magazine on March 18, 209
  10. ↑ http://www.vogue.de/articles/models/models/gntm/2010/03/09/20036
  11. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung: Anja Gockel dresses models , article from March 13, 2010
  12. ↑ http://www.vogue.de/articles/fashion-shows/fashion-shows/alek-wek/2010/01/25/19576
  13. ↑ Stephan Finsterbusch: "The collection is our focus." faz.net, January 18, 2011, accessed March 13, 2014
  14. ↑ Kirsten Reinhold: Chic Beijing: More international exhibitors. ( Memento from March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) textilwirtschaft.de, November 26, 2013, accessed on March 13, 2014
  15. ↑ Alfons Kaiser, Florian Sieben, Jennifer Wiebking: Three buttons open. faz.net, January 21, 2016, accessed January 24, 2016
  16. ↑ Fashion designer Anja Gockel - Aufschwung Ost by Tanja Kewes in the Handelsblatt on March 17, 2007
  17. ^ Article by Anja Gockel in the Allgemeine Zeitung Worms on February 27, 2009
  18. ↑ Winner of the “Goldenen Seidenschleife” at krefeldfashionworld.de, accessed on August 12, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Gockel, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fashion designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz