Jennifer Milleder

Black Sheep

jennifermilleder

Location

vienna / austria

University

university of applied arts, fashion department

Contact

“Fashion must always evoke emotions and create an individual identity based on narratives.”

Jennifer Milleder’s approach to fashion design is placed between wearability and art, based on storytelling concepts. Pretty fascinated with designing extraordinary garments, the designs are defined through strong, clear, yet dramatic silhouettes that focus on voluminous garment construction and attention to detail. Elegant, sophisticated and playful garments are created through experimental three-dimensional draping. The collections are inspired by either personal experiences or aesthetic objects and are influenced by art movements to create an artificial fictional world with embodied characters. Prints and geometric patterns, in particular, support the desire to generate surreal realities.

Jennifer Milleder is an Austrian fashion designer and stylist. She graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under the guidance of Hussein Chalayan, Luke & Lucie Meier and Grace Wales Bonner. In 2019, she also worked at Iris van Herpen’s studio in Amsterdam, focusing on haute couture dresses, creating laser cut files and print developments.

Latest Collection

Before the mirror

BEFORE THE MIRROR presents a surreal dandy story featuring self-expressed characters between fiction and reality. Deformed shapes and illusionistic silhouettes with masculine contours and corseted inner forms are part of this narrative, influenced by the artwork of surrealists René Magritte, Salvador Dali and Man Ray and the corseted torso of dandy Mr Pearl. The looks aim to modify the primarily male silhouette of a dandy’s wardrobe by adding sartorial elegance through voluminous shapes and ruffles representing femininity.

The collection’s design is taken to another level by integrating the interactive aspect: the accompanying cultural study thesis "WO/MEN before the mirror - The Dandy as a Social Figure and an Artificial Construct" becomes a transformed print that can only be read by wearing a red coat.
The mirror, as a symbol of self-expression and self-confidence, functions as another irritating and manipulative tool. Also, it connects the wearer directly with the viewer, who becomes part of an interactive outfit and part of the story itself.

Photos 1-25: irmfried photographers
Photos 26-30: Christoph liebentritt
Photo 31: Vlad Stefan/ Vangardist
Photos 32-48: Damián Skořepa, Natalie Kubenk - we´re next prague
Photos 49-58: Jakob Kozmuth - Assembly Designfestival
Photos 59-65: MichaeL Ures - Designblok International Designfestival Prague
Photots 66-78: Sabine Linemeyer

Previous collections

Flora Magnifica

k/not a glitch

Latest Collection

Before the mirror

Previous collections

Flora Magnifica

k/not a glitch

Films