BIOGRAPHY OF

Jil Sander
Zaida Katerin Vanegas Enciso
quality control in industrial clothing
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Hedeimare Jiline
Sander "Jil
Sander
BORN 27 NOVEMBER 1943 IN
WESSELBUREN, GERMANY

Is a minimalist fashion
designer and the founder
of the Jil Sander fashion
house.
Early life and Sander studied at Krefeld School of

education Textiles (Class 1963) and was a

foreign exchange student at the
University of California, Los Angeles
(1963–64). After her stint in UCLA, she
moved on to New York as a magazine
fashion writer. At age 21, she came
back to Hamburg to join her younger
and older siblings after their father
died unexpectedly at the age of 52.
 JIL SANDER FASHION
HOUSE
Sander founded her own fashion house Jil Sander in
Rotherbaum, Hamburg, Germany in 1968 with her
mother's sewing machine. Her first collection was for
Hoechst, a chemical company, using their trevira fabric. In
1973, she launched a collection under her own brand
name.

She overcame a poorly received first Jil Sander Paris

collection shown at the Plaza Athénée in 1975 and listed
her company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange at the end
of the 1980s. She subsequently flourished through the
1980s and 1990s, and soon achieved an international
following, thanks to retailers like Linda Dresner, who for a
time had a Sander boutique on New York's Park Avenue,
and Joan Burstein of Browns in London. In 1995, the Jil
Sander group reported $114 million in sales.
 PRADA
In 1999, Prada Group bought a 75% share in her company. Sander remained creative
designer and became chairwoman in the new joint venture. After resigning and coming
back to the company in several occasions, she left the brand once for all in October 2013.
Uniqlo On 17 March 2009, Sander
announced the creation of her own
fashion consultancy. The new
company's first client was Fast
Retailing of Japan with its Uniqlo
label for whom Sander oversaw
the design of womenswear and
menswear collections called +J.
Recognition
Sander was awarded the
Bundesverdienstkreuz by the Federal
Republic of Germany for her
achievements in the fashion industry.

She was listed as one of the fifty best-

dressed over 50s by The Guardian in
March 2013. Sander has been described
as the "Queen of Less".