Grit Seymour

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Grit Seymour (born 1966 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German fashion designer and professor of fashion . She is a former model and has been a designer and creative director for international fashion brands such as Donna Karan , Hugo Boss and Wolford .

Live and act

Grit Seymour grew up as the daughter of a doctor in Halle (Saale) . After high school she originally wanted Medicine study and was it already enrolled. She changed her mind at short notice and decided to apply for a fashion degree at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . For this purpose, she previously completed an apprenticeship as a tailor at the state-owned trading company Exquisit, where she made one-offs for celebrities from the GDR, among other things. At the same time, she works as a model at VHB Exquisit fashion shows and for the fashion magazine Sibylle .

Her fashion studies at the Kunsthochschule Berlin (KHB) ended prematurely when she was forced to de-register after she was under surveillance by the State Security. Until she left the GDR, she worked in a production company in the clothing industry in Mühlhausen . In autumn 1988 she left the GDR from East to West Berlin.

Here she studied from 1988 at the University of the Arts (today UdK) with Uli Richter . During the strike semester, she used a three-month study exchange and went to London to the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design . She decided to complete her bachelor's degree in London. She then moved to the Royal College of Art from 1992 to 1994 , where she received a Master of Art.

Work as a designer followed at Max Mara , Donna Karan and Daniel Hechter. From 1999 to 2001 she built the Hugo Boss women's line in Italy. She later worked as a designer for international fashion brands such as Eres, Krizia , René Lezard and as creative director for Wolford. In 2001 she founded the Tape label with the British-Canadian industrial designer Jerszy Seymour .

The Berlin University of the Arts appointed Grit Seymour as professor for fashion design in 2006. She ended this teaching activity in 2012. In 2016 she was appointed professor of fashion design at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences .

Grit Seymour is a member of the jury for the Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award .

Publications (selection)

  • Grit Seymour (Ed.): Great! Vision: Fashionable speculations for the year 2030. University of the Arts, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89462-206-0 .
  • Tender loving care . University of the Arts, Berlin 2013.
  • The Fashion Switch: The New Rules of the Fashion Business.
  • Innovation potential between fashion and medicine. In: Matthias Knaut: Creativity + X = Innovation. Pp. 222–229, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3844-8 .
  • Respect boundaries - fashion beyond fast fashion. In: Stefanie Molthagen-Schnöring: Limits in times of technological and social disruption. Pp. 130-136, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-8305-3957-5 .
  • Free within limits. Fashion in the 80s of the GDR. In: Stefanie Molthagen-Schnöring: Limits in times of technological and social disruption. Pp. 158-164. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-8305-3957-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b #einequagedesdesigns: Prof. Grit Seymour. In: The Destination of Design. November 17, 2017, accessed March 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Grit Thönnern: The liberation strike of the Grit Seymour. In: Tagesspiegel. November 6, 2019, accessed March 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Grit Seymour becomes the new creative director. In: Wolford AG. November 10, 2014, accessed March 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Seymour, Grit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fashion designer and fashion professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)