Wolfgang Joop

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Wolfgang Joop, 2015

Wolfgang Joop (born November 18, 1944 in Potsdam ) is a German fashion designer ; he recently worked as an actor . He is the founder of the fashion and cosmetics company JOOP! and child prodigy and, together with Karl Lagerfeld and Jil Sander, is considered the most successful German in this branch .

biography

Private life

Joop was born as the son of Gerhard (1914–2007) and Charlotte (1916–2010) Joop in Potsdam. He grew up on his grandparents' farm, Gut Bornstedt , in the Sanssouci park , until the family moved to Braunschweig in 1954 , where his father worked as editor-in-chief of the culture magazine Westermanns Monatshefte . During the GDR era, Joop's mother's sister, Ulla Ebert († 2002), lived in the property and received financial support from the family from the West in maintaining the property. After the reunification , Joop's parents moved back to Bornstedt. Wolfgang Joop has been sharing ownership rights with his daughters Jette and Florentine since 1994. The family estate has been the designer's main residence again since 2018.

In 1970 Joop married the then costume design student Karin Benatzky, from whom he divorced in 1985. He has two daughters - Jette Joop , who works as a fashion and jewelry designer, and Florentine Joop , writer and painter . Since separating from his wife, he has lived in a same-sex partnership and entered into a partnership with Edwin Lemberg in 2013 , which only became known in 2017. Joop is five times grandfather. He describes himself as a cosmopolitan . He owned two villas in his hometown of Potsdam ( Villa Wunderkind and Villa Rumpf ), the former was sold to the Hasso Plattner Foundation in 2017, to which he feels very attached. After a long stay in Hamburg , he currently lives in Potsdam-Bornstedt.

The early years

From a Joop fur collection, 1979

After graduating from the Wilhelm Gymnasium in Braunschweig , Joop began studying art education in Braunschweig in 1966 - only at the insistence of his father - which he never finished. After dropping out, he worked as a restorer and as a painter . He also forged pictures of old masters.

Joop's career began in 1970 when he and his wife Karin took part in a fashion competition organized by the German magazine Constanze and won the first three prizes. Because of this success, he became a fashion editor for the women's magazine Neue Mode . He ended this job in 1971; he preferred to work independently from now on, including as a freelance journalist and designer .

Joop!

JOOP! Lettering

In spring 1982 Joop presented his first ready-to-wear -Damenkollektion ago, followed by the first men's collection in 1985. Two years later, with the introduction of its first perfume collection, he made his name once and for trademarks by the Versalschrift to symbolize energy added an exclamation mark . From now on one could buy clothes, shoes, jewelry, glasses, perfume, home textiles and household goods under this name. “JOOP!” Was no longer a designer label , but a lifestyle brand that issued licenses but no longer ran its own production.

Wolfgang Joop, 1992

In 1983 Joop was honored with the Fil d'or . In 1984 the city of Krefeld and the European Silk Commission were awarded the "Golden Spinning Wheel" . In 1985, Joop took on a role as a guest lecturer in the design department at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1987 the university appointed him honorary professor . He later led the seminar “Fur fashion with accessories ”. In 2009 he was awarded the Bambi , and in 2011 he received the GQ Men of the Year Award. After reunification , Joop was the first West German designer to work with the Meißen porcelain factory by designing a service for them .

1998 sold Joop after inconsistencies for some 150 million German marks but 95 percent of its corporate shares in the Hamburg wishes Group, initially remained still chief designer of the brand JOOP !. The sale of the remaining 5 percent and Joop's final exit from the company took place in 2001.

wonder child

In 2003, Joop and his partner Edwin Lemberg founded Wunderkind GmbH & Co. KG , based in Potsdam . The first international Wunderkind fashion show took place in September 2004 at New York Fashion Week ; Joop then presented the brand's fashion in three consecutive fashion weeks. It first appeared at Paris Fashion Week in 2006, and a complete collection was presented there in October 2012. At the beginning of 2016, the company relocated to Berlin, the new location was the premises in the former Hotel Bogota . In autumn 2017, Wolfgang Joop parted ways with the brand. He presented his last collection in March 2017 during the Milan Fashion Week .

further activities

In addition to fashion and design, Wolfgang Joop also deals with illustration . Portraits and fashion illustrations from 1970 to 2000 are depicted in the illustrated book Stillstand des Fleurigen (2002). Over 100 sample parts from various Joop collections are exhibited in the Hamburg Museum of Art and Industry . Since 2009 he has been selling editions of his fashion drawings in the LUMAS edition gallery . In addition, Joop made a name for himself as a sculptor, he designed one of his works for his parents' graves in the Bornstedt cemetery. Oil paintings are also part of his oeuvre . His works of art were exhibited in the Kunsthalle Rostock (2009), in Seoul (2010) as well as during the Art Biennale in Venice (2011) and in the Museum der Künste in Leipzig. Joop also collects art, especially contemporary paintings and sculptures, as well as vintage furniture. His passion for furniture design resulted in his own furniture collection for the Neue Wiener Werkstätte in 2011 . In 2013 he designed objects for the Wiener Silber Manufactur, and in 2017 a wallpaper collection.

Joop is the author of several books and articles for magazines and newspapers. Among other things, he wrote for Spiegel , Stern and Welt am Sonntag . The books he has published so far are the little gift book Das kleine Herz (2001), the cookbook Hectic Cuisine (2002) and the novel Im Wolfspelz (2003). In 2013 Wolfgang Joop published together with the journalist and writer Rebecca Casati with Undressed. His autobiography in interview form from a life with me . This was followed in 2015 by the non-fiction book Dresscode: Style icons between cult and chaos.

From 2008, Wolfgang Joop launched independently of the fashion label Joop! in collaboration with Coty Prestige , two men's fragrance series under his full name : Wolfgang Joop (2008), Wolfgang Joop - Freigeist (2010). In autumn 2009 Joop started a collaboration with the Bayreuth health company medi and designed a range of high-priced support stockings , which he presented at the end of 2009 at the Paris fashion show of his fashion label “Wunderkind”. The collaboration continued until 2012. In October 2010, Joop started a cooperation as a creative consultant with the department store chain Galeria Kaufhof . From 2011 the fashion collection GALERIA 1879 by Wolfgang Joop, named after the year the department store group was founded, was offered for sale in the middle price segment for women and men in all Kaufhof branches . In May 2019 a collaboration with the traditional company Van Laack was announced, for which Joop works as creative director.

In 2000 he played a leading role in the social satire Suck my Dick by Oskar Roehler . He had other appearances as an actor in the films: Tears in Florence (1984), The Summer of the Samurai (1986), Go to Hell Sister (2002). From 2014 to 2015 he was a juror for two seasons alongside Heidi Klum and Thomas Hayo on the TV show Germany's Next Top Model .

social commitment

Joop supports the association Dunkelziffer e. V. , which takes care of children who have been abused by pornography, and the Hamburg Leuchtfeuer association , which looks after euthanasia . For many years he has also volunteered for the DKMS German bone marrow donor database, particularly in the board of trustees of the Dreamball of DKMS Life. Since autumn 2018, Wolfgang Joop has been the patron of the Potsdam animal shelter, which was built with his financial support.

Awards

Publications

controversy

Joop caused astonishment with his view of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . In an interview he said: "I don't regret that the symbol of the Twin Towers is no longer there because they symbolized capitalist arrogance."

Documentaries

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Joop  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Wolfgang Joop  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An unsentimental person full of wildness , welt.de, May 8, 2010
  2. ^ One customer among many , spiegel.de, September 23, 1991
  3. ^ Wolfgang Joop returned to his family villa in Gut Bornstedt after reconciliation. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Joop: "I no longer need this circus". Retrieved on May 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ I regret leaving Karin , welt.de , August 27, 2003
  6. ^ "Looks" fashion line: offspring at Joop . In: FAZ , May 26, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  7. ↑ IMDB biography on the places of residence
  8. ^ NDR: Wolfgang Joop is 75: Five facts about a fashion designer. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
  9. ↑ ZEIT ONLINE | Wolfgang Beltracchi: How an art forger made a fool of the whole world. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Biography at whoswho.de
  11. ↑ Biography at culture magazine Areion online ( Memento from June 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ https://www.aedt.de/photos/111028-gq-maenner-jahres-gewinner-aftershow/1
  13. ↑ Biography in whoswho.de .
  14. ↑ Hermann Bott: The dream prince . In: “Der Spiegel” No. 42, Spiegel Verlag Robert Augstein, October 18, 1999, last accessed September 19, 2012
  15. ↑ http://wunderkind.com/
  16. ↑ Wunderkind: New York Fashion Week, Spring-Summer Fashion - VOGUE . Vogue.de. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  17. ↑ Wunderkind Spring 2007 Ready-to-Wear Collection on Style.com: Runway Review . Style.com. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
  18. ^ A Potsdam showcase for child prodigies - the latest news from Potsdam . Pnn.de. May 18, 2013. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
  19. ↑ Joop moves in with "Wunderkind" at Hotel Bogota . Berliner Morgenpost. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
  20. ↑ FOCUS Online: "I can handle money well because I do not understand the magic of money". Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  21. ^ Rostock Art Gallery | Wolfgang Joop. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Portrait: Wolfgang Joop. March 10, 2010, accessed May 13, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Wolfgang Joop exhibits at the Venice Biennale. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Furniture: Sitting on Versace, sleeping in Joop. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Wiener Silber Manufactur :: Design :: Our designers. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  26. ^ Autobiography Undressed by Hoffmann and Campe ( Memento from October 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  27. ↑ medi and Wolfgang Joop - Compression conquers the catwalk ( memento from March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), medi.de, March 2010
  28. ↑ Wolfgang Joop designs "chic, fashionable support stockings for a good mood!" ( Memento of July 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), saz-aktuell.de, May 18, 2012
  29. ↑ Wolfgang Joop designs for the small budget at Galeria Kaufhof. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  30. ↑ https://www.textilwirtschaft.de/business/haben/design-ikone-trifft-traditionsunternehmen-wolfgang-joop-wird-neuer-kreativ-chef-bei-van-laack-215998
  31. ↑ "Germany's Next Top Model": Wolfgang Joop gets out (Spiegel Online) . Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  32. ^ Association website dark number e. V. ( Memento from September 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  33. ^ Association website Hamburg Leuchtfeuer ( Memento from July 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  34. ↑ http://www.dkms-life.de/charity/dreamball/dreamball2012/kuratorium/
  35. ↑ Wolfgang Joop supports the animal shelter near Potsdam. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  36. ↑ Wolfgang Joop honored with Vienna Award in Vienna. September 10, 2018, accessed May 13, 2019 .
  37. ↑ Laura Schütz, The status of the symbolic in the cultural processing of "9/11" , quoted there from Henryk M. Broder, No War, Nowhere: The Germans and Terror. Berlin 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Joop, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fashion designer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam