Another Early Start: Knitwear Designer Michaela Buerger’s DIY Yohji Yamamoto Beginnings
Seems we’re fixed on the childhood experience of designers these days. Yesterday, we marveled when Alexis Bittar told Vogue Italia how he started selling vintage on the street at 13. Today, thanks to PSFK, we learned about the early training of Austrian knitwear sorceress, Michaela Buerger who parlayed her experiences crafting with her mother and grandmother and a little DIY couture designing in her teens into a collection that’s carried at Colette and Opening Ceremony. Said Buerger, “My childhood was wonderful, playing a lot in the nature, being outside. To earn a bit of money my mother knitted beautiful traditional landscape cardigans, with little mills, apple trees and people—all very technically demanding work…
I was four-years-old when I produced my first scarf, which had a bit of a grunge vibe. At seven I made my first pullover. As a teenager, I wanted to have the same clothes that I saw in high fashion magazines but couldn’t afford them, so I would copy things like the asymmetrical pullover by Yohji Yamamoto—it was very good training. Then I started earning money selling gloves, socks to students and teachers, even the principal at school. I took a knitting break when I left for Vienna to study stage design at the academy of Fine Arts before going on to study with Raf Simons at the University.” Impressive. Can you think of anything that got you started at an early age? Other than that time we made a suit of armor out of tin foil in first grade, we’re kind of drawing a blank ourselves. [PSFK]
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