Posts Tagged ‘Jil Sander’

Ms. Sander currently resides at her estate in Hamburg where she also maintains a city office. She is also said to have bought an apartment in Berlin-Willmersdorf and supposedly spends most of her free time on her favorite leisure pursuit, gardening. She lives with her longtime companion Dickie Mommsen.
In May 2006, a 33-year old [...]

Ms. Sander was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz by the Federal Republic of Germany for her achievements in the fashion industry.
Ms. Sander was known for both her shy appearances in public and her power mania trying to bring everything under her control behind the scenes. She would rarely give interviews and not talk about her private [...]

On March 17, 2009 Ms. Sander announced the creation of her own fashion consultancy. The new company’s first client will be Fast Retailing of Japan with its UNIQLO label for whom Sander is to oversee special upcoming womenswear and menswear collections. Sander’s sub-label for UNIQLO will be named +J and “will consist of about 40 [...]

However, in November 2004, Ms. Sander terminated cooperation with Prada for good and resigned from her post again after insurmountable differences with Mr. Bertelli. Prada announced in an official statement that “the decision by Patrizio Bertelli and Ms. Sander to end her involvement in the company was amicable.” Sander subsequently withrew from the fashion world.

Sander returned to the company as head designer and partner in a surprise decision in May 2003, after her noncompete clause had expired. Officially, Bertelli “approached Ms. Sander and began negotiating a truce”.  Ironically, Bertelli had, with regard to Sander’s departure in 2000, boldly stated before: “A brand as strong as Jil Sander doesn’t need [...]

In 1999 Prada Group bought a 75% share in her company. Ms. Sander, remained creative designer and became chairwoman in the new joint venture. Six months later, in January 2000, Sander unexpectedly left after confrontations with Prada CEO Patrizio Bertelli, a quick-tempered Italian businessman. An uncompromising perfectionist, Sander had refused to use cheaper fabrics and [...]

Jil Sander’s success continued into the mid-1990s. Her company survived the economic crisis in Asia. She found success with a newly launched men’s collection that had been postponed several times before in 1997 and was described as “precision-cut with an emphasis upon light fabrics.” A desire with Ms. Sander to concentrate more on the creative [...]

Jil Sander AG went public in 1989 and was sold to shareholders on the Frankfurt stock exchange among the first fashion houses to venture on such a step. Sander used the new capital to expand in Asia and North America. Her success overseas resulted in expensively furnished flagship stores in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Taipei [...]

Since 1978, Sander marketed her first perfume prominently featuring her countenance. The owner of Lancaster Cosmetics allowed her financially to run ads in glamorous magazines on a large scale for her fashion. The fact that her creations were coordinates which could all be easily combined with each other became a popular characteristic. Sander created the [...]

Showing her collection in Paris in 1975 proved a complete failure, though. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the fashion world was dominated by lavish, colorful and glitzy Dynasty-style designs by the likes of Claude Montana with his broad-shouldered leather look, Jil Sander’s minimalist collections, with a focus on fabric quality came close [...]