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This article is about Juliane Knips, the fashion designer, not the company (see Juliane Knips Fashion House).

Juliane Knips (born November 19, 1942) is an German fashion designer who launched the company that is known as Juliane Knips Fashion House.

Early Years
Juliane was born in a German family in Koblenz, Germany, the daughter of Ursula and Peter Knips. Peter was working as a diplomat in various countries - therefore the family lived abroad across multiple continents. Juliane's early school years consisted of 16 different schools across the world. Outside Juliane's immediate family her uncle Bernd Berger owned the Bernd Berger Company (founded 1971) which is a fashion company that creates high-end fashion mainly with the focus on women’s wear. He later on sold the brand name. His insight and ability to create mainstream brands is unique and later gave her a perfect platform to learn from. Bernd started mainstream brands like Viventy and BERND BERGER. His son Bernd Berger Jr. also in the fashion industry created the brand Juvia with his ex Wife.

In her later years she studied Hotel Management with a specialization in Housekeeping, where she discovered her passion for fashion and fabrics. Having discovered a unique talent in assessing fabric quality and knowing how to properly maintain the clothes this gave a great foundation for her passion for fashion.

Education
Juliane finished her High school in Limassol, Cyprus in 2001 at the American Academy and received a scholarship in Arts where she planned to attend Fashion School in London but instead traveled to Germany to be with her mother and completed a qualified secondary certificate in retailing, catering and gastronomy. She then continued her studies in hotel management in Munich, Germany as the family believed a management backbone would be better than a creative one.

Career
Juliane started her career in Germany during her apprenticeship at the Hilton Munch Park in 2002 where she worked in all different sectors of a hotel operations for three years and specialized in the Housekeeping field. She then in 2005 joined the Hotel “Vier Jahreszeiten” Kempinski Munich, Germany as a Assistant Housekeeper until 2007. In 2007 she made the move to Dubai where she worked at the national airline company, Emirates as a cabin crew. Juliane left the airline after serving as a business class cabin crew in 2009 after getting an offer from The Kempinski Hotel as the assistant executive housekeeping manager.

By mid of 2010 Juliane was then recruited by Chalhoub Group as a regional sales commercial executive in Dubai, United Arab Emirates to build up the GCC and surrounding country’s market offering a luxurious portfolio of hotel supplies with brands such as Bernaudaud, Christofle and Baccarat. This job meant that while she did leave the hotel industry she instead provided key services enabling a strong and well known network.

Juliane then in 2012 started with the idea of creating her own brand firstly named as JK exclusive, tailor made, Knipsy organic baby wear and SpinK for the ready to wear collections. Her first collection, a limited edition of 300 pieces proved to be a very successful venture under her brand name SpinK, that lead to more custom projects in design and dressmaking. In 2013 the first corporate order came in and she formed the official company (Juliane Knips Fashion House) with a small atelier in Al Hamra Mall, Ras Al Khaimah. With this launch also the brand name JK uniforms was created for the corporate sector. She built a uniform portfolio designing and producing uniforms for the retail, hospitality and entertainment sectors within the GCC region, having supplied some of the best 5 star hotels, retail boutiques and theme parks.

In 2015 she received first orders for surrounding countries such as Lebanon, Qatar, Bahrain, KSA and the company was formed into a legal Limited Liability Compnay with a Local partner. In 2017 the first orders received from Kenya and later end of 2017 Juliane sold the rights to JK uniforms in the UAE to a well known established Russian work wear company Technoavia that re-branded JK uniforms into Concept uniforms expanding their market share with the takeover of all contracts and clients.

Some of the valued clients JK uniforms supplied to include Armani hotel, Sofitel the palm, Kempinski hotel Mall of emirates, Damac group, Bateel International, Brands for Less group, Dubai Parks and Resorts, Warner Brothers, Ferrari world, Legoland Dubai, VOX cinema’s and Emirates Fire Rescue team. Juliane continued to work for Technoavia as the creative head, working on large scale projects and airlines.

During mid 2019 Juliane stepped down from the full time position as creative head at Technoavia and went back to develop the retail and design side of her own Juliane Knips Fashion House focusing on design and prototyping.

Other
Juliane hosted her first fashion show in October 2017 in the Madinat Jumeirah hotel Dubai, UAE with her Dirndl collection under her Brand name SpinK.