Wunderkind (Company)

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Wunderkind GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 2003
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Wolfgang Joop (founder and designer), Peter Kappler (managing director)
Number of employees 15th
Branch Fashion
Website www.wunderkind.com

Wunderkind designer Wolfgang Joop (2009)

The Wunderkind GmbH & Co. KG is a German fashion brand . It was founded jointly by designer Wolfgang Joop and Edwin Lemberg in 2003 in Potsdam .

Until the end of 2015, the company's headquarters were at Villa Rumpf in Potsdam. At the beginning of 2016, the company changed location and moved to Berlin to the Hotel Bogota, which has been converted into a commercial building .

history

In 2003, Wolfgang Joop and his partner Edwin Lemberg founded Wunderkind GmbH & Co. KG , based in Potsdam .

The fashion label made its international debut with the high-priced women's fashion collection presented in New York in September 2004 under the name Wunderkind Couture . From the spring / summer 2007 collection, Wunderkind was presented at the Paris fashion shows . In 2007 the Wella heirs Gisa and Hans-Joachim Sander participated in the company and increased their stake after Lviv's departure in 2010 by its stake from 15% to a total of 65%, for which an investment of 27 million euros was named. The remaining 35% stayed with Joop. In 2009, an equally price-intensive men's collection was added to the Wunderkind portfolio for spring / summer 2010 , although it was never presented in a fashion show. There was also a child prodigy skin care range . At the end of 2010, the slightly cheaper women's second line 24h was launched . As a result, the high prices of the main collection were also moderated and the scope of the collection reduced. After a concept store was opened in Berlin from 2004 , there were three Wunderkind boutiques in Germany (Berlin 2006–2011, Berlin Vintage 2008-today, Kampen (Sylt) 2008-today) and one in London (2008–2011) . In 2013 Joop opened "Wunderkind" boutiques in Potsdam and Munich.

At the beginning of February 2011, the Sander couple announced the sale of their shares to the German financial investor Clemens Vedder. However, Joop himself had the right of first refusal . In March 2011 it was reported that the company was in a crisis, not yet profitable and that the company's shareholders did not want to make any further funds available. Joop had focused exclusively on the creative business since 2010 and left the management of Wunderkind to the Berlin lawyer Markus Hennig. Two boutiques in Berlin and London were closed. Since March 25, 2011, Wolfgang Joop has been the sole shareholder of the Wunderkind company again . At the time, Joop announced that he was looking for investors.

On May 10, 2012, Joop made a comeback that was celebrated by the press in his Villa Rumpf in Potsdam with the presentation of Wunderkind's fall / winter 2012/13 collection . Between the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2012, “intermediate collections” were sold in the remaining Wunderkind boutiques in Berlin and Kampen. In mid-2012, Joop, the sole shareholder of the Wunderkind company , announced that he was no longer looking for investors. Since September 2012, Wunderkind has shown its fashion collections again as part of the Paris Fashion Week.

Wunderkind boutiques

There are shops of the Joop brand Wunderkind in Potsdam and on Sylt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wolfgang Joop: The new child prodigy from Villa Rumpf | Way of life | TIME ONLINE . Zeit.de. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
  2. ↑ child prodigy | Fashion portrait . Elle.de. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
  3. ↑ Joop moves in with "Wunderkind" at Hotel Bogota . Berliner Morgenpost. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
  4. ↑ Wunderkind: New criticism of designer Wolfgang Joop , wiwo.de, February 26, 2011
  5. ↑ http://www.pnn.de/potsdam/752664/
  6. ↑ http://www.pnn.de/potsdam/760996/ , pnn.de, June 16, 2013
  7. ↑ Chaos at the Wunderkind fashion label , wiwo.de, March 3, 2011
  8. ↑ Thomas Tuma: Mode: Wonderland - burned down - economy. In: Spiegel Online . March 5, 2011, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  9. ↑ dpa / mh: New collection: Wolfgang Joop is back with Wunderkind. In: welt.de . May 10, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Fashion: Wolfgang Joop celebrated for the new Wunderkind collection. (No longer available online.) In: Zeit Online. May 10, 2012, archived from the original on January 11, 2014 ; Retrieved January 17, 2014 .
  11. ↑ The Miraculous Return of the Child Prodigy. fabeau.de, archived from the original on August 28, 2012 ; Retrieved May 14, 2012 .
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Joop: “Regret and melancholy are no longer foreign to me” , handelsblatt.com, May 27, 2012
  13. ↑ http://blog.interview.de/Paris-Fashion-Week-Wunderkind  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / blog.interview.de
  14. ↑ http://wunderkind.com/boutiques. Archived from the original on October 2, 2012 ; accessed on October 22, 2015 .