Fashion
JULIE EILENBERGER
My name is Julie Eilenberger, I'm 25 years old and was born in Denmark. I have been studying fashion design at the Univesity of Arts in Berlin for the past 4 Years. I am currently doing an internship At meadham Kirchhoff and will do another Internship at Christopher Kane from october, so I'm living in London for now. I'm loving the City. It really moves compared to Berlin, where things are always relaxed and people hang out instead of persuing a career. That is of course also why Berlin is so great, but you need to push yourself more. Here people are running!
Why Fashion? Since I was a little girl I always had the need to create my little world. I was living in a bubble, playing and making up stories. When I couldn't sleep I sat in my window talking to the moon. I found 'treasures' on the street and thought that playing and creating was a basic instinct in human beings and didn't want to grow up cause then you weren't allowed to play anymore.
I still work this way, finding random inspiration, without too much analysing, and just setting my mind free. Once I try to take control it dies. I see fashion as the best way to create this childish space, that I always needed in my life. There is little boundaries and it can be so personal.
Ok, so what is precious about my designs is the effort put into every single detail.
I do a lot of handstitching and handwork in general and like to create a new surface on
fabrics.
I have a thing for unusual materials, so I often pick very difficult, non fashion related
fabrics, since they inspire me more than what's already there.
I used a very very thick filt
last winter to do a duffle coat, a jacket a previous year of extremely thick canvas and I glued
a whole dress together out of latex.
I wish I could work more environmentally correct, since this is the worst business when it comes
to doing that! I do like the idea though of having a wardrobe of very carefully picked and personal garments
that you can keep forever. I hope that my garments will be worn like that and not just kept for a
season or two.
I'm always on fire when I begin my collections; I barely sleep, my head just keeps spinning and spinning.
I watch lots of movies which inspire me, I run around in fabric stores and galleries to get my story
completely right and then I start draping.
Usually my outfits end up looking exactly like my first sketch,
so it is always quite clear what I want from the beginning, it is then more about getting the exact forms
in the patterns or the rigth surface and color in the fabrics.
I always feel like I'm making a new family when
I start. I completely live in the world that I'm creating, which can change from year to year. One winter it
was all dark, science fiction and in the summer it was 80's ghetto with colorful print all over.
