Torsten Amft
Torsten Amft (born January 14, 1971 in Leipzig ) is a German fashion designer and fashion artist.
Life
Torsten Amft moved to Berlin at the age of 17 and became a model there . He was discovered by scouts at the then largest modeling competition in Europe, the face 93 . After that Amft worked mainly internationally, including with Helmut Newton , Herb Ritts and Gianni Versace . He used the fees he earned to finance his fashion studies in Zurich .
Career
Amft now works worldwide; in addition to its headquarters in Berlin-Mitte , it operates branches in Tokyo and New York City . Amft creates fashion for men and women, from one-offs to large series.
Brands
His individual creations ( Haute Couture ) run under the proper name Torsten Amft , while the clothing line of the fashion designer is sold under the Amft label . He understands modern fashion art to be the merging of socio-political influences and themes in clothing. The brand logo is the signature of the designer and should underline the personification with the liability or responsibility for quality and dialectics.
philosophy
The fashion designer is one of the leading fashion artists in Germany. It has been proven that he has been practicing his interpretations of clothing as the use of world views and the dissemination of messages since 2000, and this style is becoming more and more popular in the fashion scene. Amft's collections are always subject to a socially critical aspect, such as As its collection premiere 2007/08 under the slogan Collateral Climate , here he treated the first fashion designer to climate change . After the G8 summit, he took up the topic of Africa (African raw materials against famine) at his spring / summer 2008 fashion show . The entire collection was stocked with African cultural products. At “Fashion Week 2008”, Amft had his models stroll with the well-known Klaus Wowereit saying “poor but sexy”, thus indirectly pointing out the impending lull. In this context he was the first fashion designer to experiment with solar models (clothing) in order to be able to use efficient natural resources / raw materials with clothing. Amft calls his style elitist futurism .
Amft caused a sensation when he presented the world's largest models at Berlin Fashion Week in 2008. Amft has been the artistic director of Europe's largest open-air fashion spectacle, the Global Fashion Festival, for several years .
Web links
- Homepage Torsten Amft
- Fashion label Amft
- Biography of Torsten Amft on Who is Who in Germany ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1.96 meter high model seen in Berlin. July 14, 2008.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amft, Torsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German fashion designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |