Marcel Ostertag

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Marcel Ostertag (born 1979 in Berchtesgaden ) is a German fashion designer and the name of the fashion label he founded in 2006.

Life

Ostertag began learning ballet at the age of five , went to the Salzburg State Theater and later to the Vienna State Opera for 13 years . After he had to stop dancing due to an injury, he briefly attended the Esmod fashion school in Munich and then studied at Central Saint Martins College in Londonwhere he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2004 and received an award for his menswear graduation collection. He completed the subsequent master’s course in 2006. In the same year he founded his own fashion company, Marcel Ostertag GmbH in Munich. At the beginning there was a cooperation with the Viennese designer Martina Rogy, whom he had met at Esmod, through two shops called Rogy & Ostertag in Munich and Vienna (closed at the beginning of 2008). Ostertag showed his collections for women and men at London Fashion Week 2006 . In 2007 he won the Moët & Chandon Fashion Debut Prize in Berlin, which enabled him to take part in Berlin Fashion Week . There, Easter 2008 became theKarstadt New Generation Award presented. Ostertag discontinued its men's fashion collection in 2008; since then he has concentrated on women's fashion. In 2009 he entered into a cooperation with Karstadt on a fashion collection for the department store. In 2013 he won the “ Fashion Hero ”television fashion competitionon ProSieben ; Karstadt then bought the collection presented on the show. On February 1, 2016, Ostertag relocated its headquarters from Munich to Berlin. In February 2016 he showed his collections for the first time at New York Fashion Week . Participation enabled him to participate in a DHL Exported sponsorship programin collaboration with the NYFW organizer. Ostertag attaches great importance to the label Made in Germany and therefore has its fashion made in East Germany and deliberately not abroad such as in Asia.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Ruth Schneeberger: Munich has gotten a bit boring. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 20, 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Susanne Stephan: Marcel Ostertag: Glamorous balancing act. In: evening newspaper. October 25, 2013, accessed January 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Designer Marcel Ostertag today at Gleisdreieck. In: Der Tagesspiegel. October 8, 2008, accessed January 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Julia Hackober: Marcel Ostertag wants to be on television again. In: The world. January 16, 2014, accessed January 23, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Marcel Ostertag leaves Munich , bild.de January 25, 2016
  6. ↑ DHL Exported Winners Cycle 2 , dhlexported.com, accessed: October 5, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Easter day, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fashion designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Berchtesgaden