Berlin, meet Amélie Jaeger.
I’m not on to venture out to Charlottenberg on a Saturday night, but a client wanted me to drop off one of my jumpsuits at a friend’s apartment. Little did I know the chick that I was meeting was an avant garde designer in her own right. Both my friend and this designer Amélie Jaeger were both going to Düsseldorf for an awards ceremony in which she was being honored. As soon as I got there, what caught my eye was a white lacquer mold of a hand and forearm. Upon closer inspection, I realized it was actually a fashion accessory. Forget bracelets or rings, this trumped anything you could use to adorn your arm. Amélie and I talked about her graduation from University of Arts in Berlin, her experiences working as Marc Jacobs’ assistant in New York, and what brought her to do such unique pieces. She went on to show me some of the other pieces from that collection, including an incredible black lacquer neck brace. I’m not talking some post taxi-cab accident whiplash neck brace, but rather a very surreal piece of jewelry fitting of the Palais Royale in Paris. She doesn’t stop at just designing accessories, she also has a collection of clothing that is again tailored to a very specific art connoisseur crowd. But the showstopper would be her shoes. Similar to Japanese shoe designer Noritaka Tatehana's, Jaeger’s shoes are heal-less and in comparison much more on point, pun intended.
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