Michael Michalsky

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Michael Michalsky (2005)

Michael Michalsky (born February 23, 1967 in Göttingen ) is a German fashion designer and designer .

Life

Michalsky was born in Göttingen in 1967, grew up in Rümpel in Schleswig-Holstein and graduated from high school in 1987 at the Theodor Mommsen School in nearby Bad Oldesloe . He then studied at the London College of Fashion until 1992 , where he also worked in the London Lighthouse Hospice for AIDS sufferers. He began his professional career as a design manager at Levi Strauss & Co. in Germany.

In 1995 he started to work as head designer at Adidas and from 2000 onwards he was responsible for the design of all Adidas products as global creative director . For the sporting goods manufacturer he developed collaborations and product lines with the fashion designers Yohji Yamamoto and Stella McCartney and the rap musician Missy Elliott . In addition, he brought out older Adidas products with a " retro look". In May 2005, the Korean luxury goods company Sungjoo Group commissioned him to refresh the ailing fashion brand MCM and hired him as the new creative director. In June 2006 he left Adidas and founded his own fashion and lifestyle company in Berlin .

Michael Michalsky and Eva Padberg , 2014

In January 2007 he presented his first fashion show in the Rotes Rathaus . In 2007, together with Eva Padberg , he supported the Rettet Darfur initiative by Fairplanet and the Society for Threatened Peoples and became the project's official ambassador.

From 2007 to 2009 he designed design collections for Tchibo under the Mitch & Co. brand . In October 2009 and September 2010, together with the US consumer goods company Procter & Gamble, he designed a time-limited design for the packaging of its Ariel detergent . In 2009 he designed a summer collection for Sony with devices and accessories from the electronics manufacturer's range. In the summer of 2009 he founded the subsidiary Michalsky designLab , which exclusively takes care of design work that is not in the fashion sector.

As part of the Berlin Fashion Week 2008 he presented creations for the spring and summer season 2009 under his premium label “Michalsky”, which he promoted with political statements such as “Atomkraft? No thanks! ”Or“ No Blood for Oil ”. In cooperation with the WWF he brought out the T-shirt collection “Protect!” Under the label “Michalsky for WWF”, which shows animal illustrations of endangered species on the camisoles made of organic cotton. For every T-shirt sold, five euros went to the WWF.

In 2009, Vogue named Michalsky the "new German fashion pope". Under the title StyleNite , he has been organizing an event in Berlin since 2010 that arose from the Michalsky fashion shows and takes place twice a year during Berlin Fashion Week. In March 2012, Michalsky joined as a judge in the final show of the VOX telecast The perfect model on. In October 2012 he presented a sofa collection in collaboration with the furniture manufacturer Polipol . In 2016, he replaced Wolfgang Joop as a juror in the 11th season of Germany's Next Top Model . Since 2016 he has been a fashion expert alongside Annemarie Carpendale and Steven Gätjen through the Oscar broadcast of Pro7 .

Awards

  • In 2003 Michalsky was named "National Designer of the Year" with the GQ Award Germany and
  • 2004 ISPO VISION named “Sportstyle Designer of the Year”.
  • In July 2005, he and his Adidas design team were elected Designer Team of the Year at the “ red dot design awards ”.
  • Michalsky was included in the exhibition “ 100 Heads of Tomorrow ”, which was selected in 2006 by a prominent jury on behalf of the “ Land of Ideas ” initiative under the patronage of Federal President Horst Köhler .

literature

  • Jutta Limbach, Peter Raue (eds.): 100 heads of tomorrow. The future in the land of ideas. Heel, Königswinter 2006, ISBN 3-89880-667-7
  • Peter Zec (Ed.): Red dot design yearbook 2005/2006. av Edition, Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89939-072-5

Web links

Commons : Michael Michalsky  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Don't say anything now, Michael Michalsky in SZ-Magazin , issue 45/2008
  2. ↑ a b fashion designer Michael Michalsky: "I love superficiality" in taz from April 18, 2008
  3. ↑ Fashion week in the capital: The Berliners appear in Süddeutsche Zeitung on January 24, 2008
  4. ↑ Sungjoo Group: MCM
  5. ↑ MCM: Der Musterknabe in Stern , edition 7/2006
  6. ↑ Fashion: Wowereit opens “Berlin Fashion Week”. In: berlin.de. January 25, 2007, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on August 29, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Save Darfur: T-shirt campaign during Fashion Week in Berlin / shooting with Eva Padberg. In: gfbv.de. Archived from the original on June 11, 2007 ; accessed on October 20, 2019 .
  8. ↑ http://www.presseportal.de/story.htx?nr=963858
  9. ↑ Michalsky: Cooperation also in 2009. Press release. (No longer available online.) In: tchibo.com. March 12, 2008, archived from the original on April 16, 2012 ; accessed on June 12, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Ariel and Michalsky forge fashion alliance in Werben & Sell on October 30, 2009
  11. ↑ Sony products designed by Michael Michalsky. Sony , July 3, 2009, archived from the original ; accessed on February 21, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Young wilder is looking for a cool professional: Example: Star designer Michael Michalsky in Impulse from January 14, 2011
  13. ↑ Fashion week: Michalsky demonstrates in Berlin on stern.de on July 19, 2008
  14. ↑ Fashion designed for environmental protection - campaign in favor of WWF ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wwf.de
  15. ↑ https://www.vip.de/vips/michael-michalsky-t10714/seite-4.html found at vip.de, accessed on October 18, 2019
  16. ↑ Designer Michalsky: Party for friends and enemies in Spiegel Online from January 21, 2012
  17. ↑ Star designers Michael Michalsky and Guido Maria Kretschmer, as guest jurors, evaluate the finalists' achievements
  18. ↑ Designer Michael Michalsky presents his first sofa collection at Fashion Insider on October 2nd, 2012
  19. ↑ This is top designer Michael Michalsky
  20. ↑ Oscars 2016: Michalsky as a fashion expert at the Oscar: "Half-naked people have no place there"
  21. ↑ Michael Michalsky leaves Adidas. In: de.red-dot.org. March 17, 2006, archived from the original on May 30, 2013 ; accessed on September 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Michalsky, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fashion designer and designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen