Fashion x Craft
In 2024/25, I participated in the “Fashion x Craft” program, funded by the Fashion Council Germany, the King’s Foundation, and the Swarovski Foundation. In addition to business workshops in Berlin, we spent three weeks in Highgrove, UK, where we took part in intensive workshops led by experts from various craft disciplines, including basket weaving, woodworking, natural dyeing, and stucco work.
At the end of the program, each participant was required to design a coat in collaboration with Harris Tweed, incorporating the crafts they had learned and translating them into fashion. These coats were later exhibited at the Berlin Salon during Berlin Fashion Week.
The Final Sketch for my Harris Tweed Coat with rose sleeves and draped braiding application.
The foundation of this look was developed during our time in Highgrove, where I found inspiration in the various workshops we participated in. I focused especially on the movements our hands performed while practising different craft techniques. At first, these movements felt unfamiliar, but over time they became an automatic process in which we began to think through—and with—our hands, shaping the material in a way that naturally followed the fluidity of motion.
Harris Tweed Coat with Braiding Elements - Exhibited at the Berliner Salon January 2025
photo: Ben Moenks