CHRISTINA SEEWALD

Grey Sheep

https://www.instagram.com/christina_seewald/

Location

london / United Kingdom

University

central saint martins ma fashion

Main Manufacturing Countries

austria

United Kingdom

italy

Contact

Christina Seewald is a Fashion knitwear designer who has just presented her collection at London Fashion Week 2019. Through her collection which deals with uncompromising female empowerment and obsessive behaviour, she wants to showcase her very focused point of view to a global audience. She achieves this by working with high quality yarns and very technically advanced knitting know-how.

Born and raised in Graz the Christina went to Vocational College of Fashion and Design in Graz and moved to London when she was 19. Before her Masters at Central Saint Martins she graduated with a BA in Textile-design at the same University.

Situating her branding, broadening her connections with other designers and potential clients are some of her immediate goals. Her aim is to establish a high-end womenswear brand, creating knitted garments with attention to craftsmanship. Embracing detailed attention to carefully manufactured textiles, each collection returns to forgotten or little-used knitwear fabrication techniques. The intention is to make clients aware of the considered sourcing and manufacturing, thus highlighting the importance of the conscious use of garments of quality.

Latest Collection

SHEWEE

Through her collection which deals with uncompromising female empowerment and obsessive behaviour, she wants to showcase her very focused point of view to a global audience. She achieves this by working with high quality yarns and very technically advanced knitting know-how.

This collection is further informed by the works of female artists such as Eva Hesse, Valie Export, Ana Mendieta and Mierle Ukeleles. More explicitly these artists have inspired the tactile and visual elements of the collection, directly influencing the textures and colours used. However, she was also inspired by the ways in which these artists present a state of femininity, commenting upon how women often feel trapped in their appearance by having to conform to what is perceived as clean for a woman.

For this collection she developed a rib/brush technique with Cashmere sponsored by Loro Piana. This was contrasted by using very fine gauge yarns and working very closely with an Italian couture factory, Maglioficio Miles who also sponsored her. Using such treatments and materials in combination with razor sharp tailoring has the potential to show contemporary knitwear in a radically new way.