Dorothea Mink

Dorothea Mink is a German fashion designer and university lecturer.

Life

Mink grew up in the Black Forest on the French border and attended the Markgraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium in Baden-Baden . From 1983 to 1988 Mink studied fashion design at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg . After graduating, Mink worked for Jil Sander and Wolfgang Joop . In 1995 she was offered a position at the University of Applied Sciences in Hanover, Department of Art and Design, where she taught until 2002 as a professor of fashion design. Mink has been a professor at the Bremen University of the Arts since 2002 : Integrated design course - experimental design with a focus on fashion design.

Research interests

How does clothing become fashion that people can identify with? This is one of the key questions Mink deals with in her teaching. While function and use are in the foreground in clothing, fashion always has a human meaning. "Fashion stands for interpersonal communication, fashion stands for the expression of one's own identity."

Another research focus of Mink is the life and work of the British-American couturier Charles James (1906–1978).

Publications (selection)

• Fashion - out of order. Disruption as a Principle . Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-89790-358-6 .
• Grid and crosshairs. For scrutiny of crimes. Criticism and artistic investigations of a media technology , ed. v. Andrea Sick , Katharina Hinsberg and Dorothea Mink. Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1173-1 .
• Fashion Body Cult / Mode Body Cult , ed. v. Elke Bippus and Dorothea Mink. Series 03 Bremen University of the Arts. Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3897902640 .

Web links

• Profile on the website of the HfK Bremen
• Literature by and about Dorothea Mink in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief interview in Weser-Kurier on January 20, 2010 on the occasion of the Out of Order fashion conference - Disruption as a principle from January 22 to 24 in Bremen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Flowery prospects . In: Die Welt , May 7, 2016, accessed on February 12, 2019.
2. ↑ Profile on the website of the HfK Bremen. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .