Claudia Hill
Claudia Hill is a German costume and fashion designer, based in Berlin and New York.
Style
Critics have described her designs as having a “captivating clarity”[3] and as being “not meant for only one season”.[4]
She “effectively bridges the art/fashion world divide without sacrificing wearability”,[5] her own view of this being that she is “a fashion designer who finds fashion too commercial and an artist who finds art too intellectual”.[6]
Her New York Fashion Week shows are deemed unconventional and take the form of performances or installations[1] (e.g., instead of a Fall/Winter 2000 runway show, she screened a film in the Bryant Park tents that featured her new collection[7][8]). She places a strong emphasis on the body's motion and prefers dancers over runway models for her shows.[9]
Biography
Claudia learned to sew from her mother, a tailor from Prague, at age 11.[4] She moved to New York in 1993 to study dance.[9]
The catalyst for Claudia Hill's move from costume to fashion design was Miguel Adrover, who would later receive the CFDA's Emerging Talent Award for Ready-to-wear, but in 1997 was running his small boutique Horn on 9th Street: “She used to live near Horn and closely knew the owners Miguel and Duglas, as well as Pierrot, who was a sales person there. When she was wearing a self-made dress, Miguel asked her if she could sell her garments at the shop. That’s how she started production.”[10]
Works
Lines
- 1998 to 2005: Claudia Hill (Ready-to-wear)
- 1998 to 2002: The Number After 10
- 2005 to present: Claudia Hill (Limited Editions)
Ready-to-wear pieces have sold at her own store,[11] and in high-end boutiques, such as Barneys New York,[12][13] Louis Boston,[12] Fred Segal,[12][13] Seven New York,[14] Horn,[10] Desperado[3] and POV Beams.[3]
Notable Costume Designs
Collaborations
Claudia Hill has been a frequent collaborator with a diverse set of artists:
- Japanese Photographer Ariko
- Co-Designer of the The Number After 10 Line[19]
- Ariko has been filming[7][8] and photographing the Claudia Hill line from the inception to the present.
- Icelandic musician Skuli Sverrisson
- Music for her Spring/Summer 2000 show
- Music for her Spring/Summer 2001 show[7]
- Music for the opening of her Berlin store in 2004
- Architects Hani Rashid, Lise Anne Couture and Ruth Berktold of Asymptote Architecture
- Art direction for the Spring/Summer 2001 show[7][20]
- Israeli Artist Nelly Agassi
- Collaborative Designs[3][21]
- Performance “Schlafsahne”
- Performance “Wasserwünsche” with Israeli musician Ori Drumer
- Japanese Artist Daisuke Nakayama (official homepage in English)
- Art Director For the Fall/Winter 2001 Show[7][22][23]
- Director of the Fall/Winter 2000 Movie[8]
Notes
- ^ a b Quinn, Bradley (2009), Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge, London: Laurence King Publishing, pp. 68 to 73, ISBN 978-1-85669-581-7, http://www.laurenceking.com/product/Textile+Designers+at+the+Cutting+Edge.htm
- ^ sal (November 2001), "Claudia Hill:Konzeptmode aus N.Y.", Bolero
- ^ a b c d e Wesley, Jay (Issue 8, 2005), "High on the Hill", Zoo
- ^ a b Schipp, Anke (June 27, 2004), "Auf Tuchfühlung", Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
- ^ Jesella, Kara (April 2000), "Cut to the Chase", Nylon: Page 52
- ^ Feigelfeld, Paul (May 2003), "Hill Top für das pro-fashional Ballett", Style and the Family Tunes: Page 36
- ^ a b c d e Giordano, Kevin (Fall 2000), "Collector Items", *Surface
- ^ a b c Composite, April 2000
- ^ a b c Magel, Eva-Maria (April 26, 2003), "Kleidung, nicht Kostüm", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- ^ a b Sanada, Yoko (August 2001), "Claudia Hill", gli: Pages 36 & 37
- ^ "Glanzpunkte, Mixen Sie Perlen, Duft, & Haute Couture", Elle Decoration Germany: Page 46, January/February 2005
- ^ a b c "Eiskalt für die Avantgarde", Deutsch, August 2004
- ^ a b Storey, John (September 2004), Madame Figaro, Taiwan
- ^ a b "Not All Black and White", Wallpaper, April 2001
- ^ Associated Artists of The Forsythe Company, http://www.theforsythecompany.com/associatedartists.html, retrieved 2009-04-06
- ^ Siegmund, Gerald (2004), William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung, Berlin: Henschel Verlag, pp. 78, 114, ISBN 3-89487-472-4
- ^ Brantley, Ben (November 1, 2007), "Looks it not like the King? Well, More Like Burton", The New York Times: Pages E1 & E12, http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/theater/reviews/01haml.html
- ^ Associated Artists of The Wooster Group, http://www.thewoostergroup.org/twg/staff.html, retrieved 2009-04-06
- ^ Chen, Aric (Summer 2001), "Claudia Hill", Black Book
- ^ Rashid, Hani; Couture, Lise Anne; Katsanos, NA; Karaiskakis, G (2002), "Flux", Journal of Chromatography A (London: Phaidon Press) 934 (1–2): 31–49, doi:10.1016/S0021-9673(01)01277-8, ISBN 0-7148-4172-2, PMID 11762762, http://www.phaidon.com/Default.aspx/Web/asymptote-flux-9780714841724
- ^ TimeOut Tel Aviv: Pages 54–56, 2007
- ^ gap: Page 167, Fall/Winter 2001
- ^ Yomiuri Shimbun, February 19, 2001
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