14 August 2019

Fashion Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna will start with Jil Sander Creative Directors Lucie and Luke Meier into the new academic year

In March before the students and graduates of the Fashion Master Class under the direction of Hussein Chalayan presented their collections it was already announced (article) that an international appointment procedure for the chair is on going. Hussein Chalayan, he directed the class over five years, Vivienne Westwood or Karl Lagerfeld contributed already their knowledge to students in Vienna. Now, the Fashion Department selected for the first time a couple for the positions of professors at the university. Lucie and Luke Meier met during their studies at Polimoda in Florence (Polimoda article about the alumni-duo). Lucie worked for Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Dior, Luke for Supreme and co-founded the own label OAMC. Since 2017, the Meiers are creative directors of Jil Sander; the founder of the brand was once herself head of the Fashion Master Class in Vienna.

Lucie and Luke Meier will focus on a changing fashion industry concerning communication, cooperation and people's consciousness of environmental and social topics.
"The high appeal and fascination fashion holds for people calls for an increasingly conscious and critical approach to resources and environmental action. Furthermore, the working conditions of the people employed by the fashion industry also need to be explored," is stated at the press release of the Fashion Department of the University of Applied Arts.

fig.: Portrait of Lucie and Luke Meier. Photo by Oliver Helbig.


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