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Lutz Huelle is a fashion designer born in Cologne, Germany and based in Paris.

In the early 90’s, Lutz moved to London and entered the fashion design course of Central Saint Martins College of art and design. During his student years, he was featured on several well-known pictures by his childhood friend Wolfgang Tillmans, together with Alexandra Bircken.‘Like brother, like sister’ amongst others were published in i-D magazine as well as on the cover of one of his books.

In 1995, after completing his BA (hons) in Fasion Design with a First Class degree, Lutz Huelle moved to Paris and worked at Maison Martin Margiela for three years. He was the responsible for the knitwear and artisanal lines.

In 2000, he decided to launch his eponymous brand named LUTZ with his partner David Ballu. He had his first show at Fabrice Hybert’s studio during Paris fashion week. The collection was an immediate success attracting the attention of the best-known multi-brand stores worldwide like L’Eclaireur, Maria Luisa or Penelope. It combined the ease of sportswear with the complexity and creativity of a designer’s collection.

This same year, Lutz won the prestigious ANDAM Award - biggest Fashion Award worldwide - and again two years later. In 2002, he was invited to Hyères festival as part of the design judging panel when Felipe Oliveira Baptista won the prize. Lutz’s pieces have been acquired and shown at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, FRAC, Musée Galliera, and at the Goethe Institute in Tokyo.

Lutz’s approach to fashion has been described as “re-contextualisation”. Taking things out of context, mixing and matching, working on structure and identity. A trench coat is draped to become a dress, a dress is cut in heavy cotton to double as a coat, knit is worked to resemble a fur coat and a leather bag is draped and worn on the shoulder to become part of the silhouette, thus creating an identity that is multifaceted, conceptual and personal.

“This would go on to inform all of my later work the tweaking of the silhouette, pulling garments up and down the body to emphasize different parts, the mix of strong, elementary colors with neutrals, the draping of simple, everyday garments, the mix- and-match of knit and fabric, the surrealism and fetishism, the sporty influences, my obsession with the Trenchcoat and the Bomber, and the layering of different types and genres.”

His collections have been shown all around the world including Dunedin fashion week where he was part of the jury, Rome, Beijing, Shanghai, Sao Paolo and Barcelona amongst others. In addition, he has been a teacher at Central Saint Martins and at the Royal College of Art in London.

In 2012, the brand was renamed Lutz Huelle due to the growing in size of the company and the resulting difficulty of effectively protecting the name LUTZ on a worldwide basis.

Lutz Huelle has been an active member of the “Fédération Française de la Couture et du Pret-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode” since 2002.

Today the brand is sold in around 70 stores and boutiques worldwide and has his own showroom in Le Marais district in Paris.