Since 2000 operating on a freelance basis for own label and individual projects within concept development, design, pattern
making, sample making, production supervision and creative consulting.
Feb 2020 Walking Distance - Fashion On a Different Route, exhibition at Centrala Gallery, Birmingham
Jun 2019 launch otherways[project], circular unsiex collection concept
Feb + Mar 2018 participation in Circular Fashion Games, Eindhoven & Amsterdam
Apr 2010 launch pigschick, knit- and beachwear
Feb 2005 fashion show, presenting own collection, Berlin
Mar 2004 fashion show on occasion of IKEA Roomwear press conference, Hamburg
Mar 2004 fashion show, presenting own collection, Berlin
Jan + Aug 2002 Who's Next Paris, presenting own collection
Feb 2002 fashion show Future. Now!, under the patronage of Vivienne Westwood, presenting own collection, Hanover
Aug 2000 launch sabine lettmann, knit- and womenswear
otherways[project], circular unisex collection concept
Photos: Asia Werbel Models: Maena/Body London & Aldo H.
Membership Fashion Council Germany
Fellowship RSA, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce UK
Nov 2020 Re-imagining the Landscape of Future Living and Learning Through Bio-material Exploration, presentation at The RCE Europe
Conference, De Montfort University
Leicester, co-authors:
Zoë Hillyard and Beth White/ Birmingham City University
Nov
2020 From Global Problem to Local Solution – How a Future Directed Circular Economy Can Foster Social Change, presentation at the Social and Cultural Aspects of Circular Economy
workshop, University of Helsinki, co-author Pia Schmoeckel/ Maastricht University
Sep 2020 otherways[project] - Circular Design Concept as an Education Platform for Consumers, presentation at the Sustainable Apparel and Textiles in the Circular Economy summit, Huddersfield University UK
Jun 2020 The Relevance Of a New Presentation Format For The Transition Towards a Circular Fashion Industry, poster presentation at CCA Clothing Culture Association conference, Seoul
May 2020 MAT_er.LAB, the Interdisciplinary Playground Where Science Means Personal Growth publication in Journal of Textile Science and Fashion Technology, co-authors Beth White and Zoë Hillyard/ Birmingham City University, Iris Publishers: San Francisco
Oct 2019 Design for Circularity in Fashion, panel discussion Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
Sep 2019 Facing Textile Industry: Why Circular Design has to become a BA Fashion programme and Creativity alone is not Enough, publication in Journal in Textile Science and Fashion Technology, Iris Publishers: San Francisco
Sep 2019 Sustainability through Cross Border Circular Economy, presentation otherways[project] at Erasmus+ project, Gothenborg
Since Apr 2019 Senior Lecturer Costume Design and Practice, Birmingham City University
Nov 2018 Beyond Aesthetics talk at SH:IFT student conference launch, Birmingham City University
Sep 2018 Das Erscheinungsbild der Influencer talk GRUR annual conference, German Association for the Protection of Intellectual
Property
2018 - 2019 Visiting Lecturer Fashion and Costume Design level 4 - 6, Birmingham City University
2017 - 2018 1st - 3rd year Fashion Design & Textile Management, Akademie JAK Hamburg
2015 - 2017 3rd year Fashion Design, Vitruvius Hochschule Leipzig
2015/16 Assistances at Hamburg State Opera:
Turangalîla, choreographer: John Neumeier / costume: Albert Kriemler, Akris
La Passione, direction: Romeo Castellucci / costume: Romeo Castellucci
Das stille Meer, direction: Oriza Hirata / costume: Aya Masakanene
Eleonora Duse, choreographer: John Neumeier / costume: John Neumeier
Peer Gynt, choreographer: John Neumeier / costume: Jürgen Rose
La Bianca Notte, direction: Ramin Gray / costume: Janina Brinkmann
La Fanciulla del West, direction: Vincent Boussard
/ costume: Christian Lacroix
2014 Assistance movie Boy 7, direction: Özgür Yildirim / costume: Christine Zahn
Since 2011 operating on a freelance base including Dior, Chaumet, Iris von Arnim, Made auf Veddel, Matthew Christopher, Reet Aus, neyo.eu.
2019 Co-organisation SH:IFT (Students Happening Influencing Fashion and Textiles) student conference, Birmingham City University
2018 Das Erscheinungsbild der Influencer publication GRUR 12/2018, The German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
2016 Co-development WOW Magazin
2005 - 2010 Assistance, then head of press showroom, JOOP! GmbH Hamburg
Mar 1996 - Jul 2001 Fashion Design studies, University of Applied Sciences HAW Hamburg, Diploma in Fashion Design equivalent to MA
Oot 1993 - Feb 1996 Law studies, Georg-August University Goettingen
Further Education:
Jun 2018 Circular Economy Teaching & Learning, Higher Education workshop, Ellen MacArthur Foundation London
Oct 2017 Higher Education Didactics, course Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
Mar + May 2017 Design Thinking, workshop I + II Hamburg Kreativgesellschaft
Feb 2017 Social Media Manager, certificate Social Media Akademie Mannheim
Dec 2013 Storytelling, international workshop NORDWINDfestival Hamburg
Apr 1996 English, foreign language certificate Georg-August University Goettingen
Feb 2021 Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK
Oct 2018 otherways[project] at exhibition for German Federal Award Bundespreis Ecodesign, Kulturforum Berlin
Mar 2018 3rd place at Circular Fashion Games Eindhoven/Amsterdam
Feb 2005 2nd place at competition WeddingDress#1 Berlin
Jan + Aug 2002 invitation as exhibitor Les Jeunes Créateurs, Who's Next Paris
Jan 2001 Exhibiton best diplomas of 2000 at HAW Hamburg
Apr 1999 1st place at competition personnel uniforms Karstadt Sport Hamburg