Anne Sofie Madsen

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Anne Sofie Madsen (born 1979) [1] is a Danish fashion designer who grew up on the island of Funen and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, also known as the Danish Design School, in 2009. [2] She established her own fashion label in 2011 and presented her first collection at London Fashion Week the following year. [3]

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Early life and education

She showed an early interest in fashion after seeing a collection designed by Jean Paul Gaultier in one of her mother's magazines. [4] In 2002, she went on to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where she decided to specialize in fashion. [5]

In 2006, Madsen received practical training in Paris where she deepened her understanding of materials while at Peclers, a trend-setting agency. [6] Still in Paris, she then interned with John Galliano who was then Dior's head designer. She returned to Denmark to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design, graduating with a master's degree in 2009. [7] [8] After graduation, she set about establishing her own business, opening her practice in 2010. [5]

Fashion career

A review of Copenhagen Fashion Week 2014 in The Guardian wrote that: "Anne Sofie Madsen's cyberpunk girls helped define the fashion event." [9] In 2017, The Guardian wrote that inspiration could be found in the "models at Anne Sofie Madsen who layered several blankets into a dress". [10] She showed a spring 2017 collection in Tokyo and a 2018 ready to wear collection in Paris in autumn 2017. [11] [12]

Madsen has described a variety of sources of inspiration for her designs, such as mythology and museums, [13] the Miracle Strip Amusement Park in Miami, Florida, with its "vision of abandoned thrills and discarded pleasures", [8] Jesper Just's art film, Sirens of Chrome (2010), [14] and "contrasts and borders between the primitive and civilized, the exotic and classic, the barbaric and elegant, the futuristic and historical". [15] She combines soft, smooth and tough, hard materials in her designs, [8] [14] and often uses digital prints of her own illustrations for the garments. [7] [14] [6]

By 2014, the Danish Design Museum had selected some of her creations for their permanent collection. [16]

In 2021 she collaborated with crochet artist Lulu Kaalund [17] to produce a limited edition of eleven handmade designs, using materials including leather, suede, cotton and wool. [18] [19]

Awards

In October 2013, Madsen won the Dansk Design Talent award which was presented by then-Crown Princess Mary for the five fashion designs she had created for the Danish singer Oh Land. [20] In 2015, she won the DHL Exported award for the collections she was to show in Tokyo. [21] [22]

References

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  6. 1 2 Udale, Jenny (2020). Textiles and Fashion: Exploring Printed Textiles, Knitwear, Embroidery, Menswear and Womenswear (2nd ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 186–187. ISBN   9781350203389 . Retrieved 17 January 2025.Originally published 2014
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  9. Hellqvist, David (3 February 2014). "Copenhagen fashion week: six things we learned". The Guardian .
  10. Ferrier, Morwenna (31 October 2017). "The good, the plaid but not ugly: how to wear autumnal checks". The Guardian .
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  16. Pedersen, Niels (30 November 2014). "Museum slår langt om længe et ridderslag for dansk mode" (in Danish). Politiken. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018.
  17. Macalister-Smith, Tilly (3 February 2021). "The Danish chef-turned-crochet designer you need to know now". wallpaper.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  18. Jensen, Sofie Ringtved (19 March 2021). "En ny design-duo, fremtidens tøj og et gyldent genbrugskoncept" [A new design duo, the clothes of the future and a golden recycling concept]. Fashion Forum (in Danish). Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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