SVEN SCHUSTER EVER GREEN

Grey Sheep

Location

Essen / germany

University

Folkwang University of Arts

Graduation year

2013

Contact

BORN IN VELBERT, GERMANY IN 1989.

First contact to the fashion business during individual trips to Tokyo.

Getting in close contact to Japanese avant-garde fashion and the subcultures of Shibuya. Bored by the dreary German supply of streetwear but deeply inspired and impressed by intellectual and conceptual labels such like Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Garçons, Jun Takahashi's UnderCover, Nigo's BAPE or Phenomenon, their collections, store designs and customers.

Second school graduation and voluntary community service instead of joining the German military.

Fashion design studies at the AMD Academy of Fashion&Design (AMD Akademie Mode&Design) in Düsseldorf, Germany, with the main emphasis on mens- and footwear, concept design and visual communication.

Californian shoe brand "The Generic Man" sponsors the 4th semester collection entitled "Fukushima no Ryoshi".

Internship at Jeremy Scott's Los Angeles based studio.

Working as a fashion photographer's assistant in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Educational research trip to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Focusing on the B.A. degree collection entitled "We Are Africa - Serve, Strive and never Yield".

Participating in an interdisciplinary workshop called "design4recycling" together with ArtEZ Arnhem, Saxion School and HS Niederrhein students. The teams' results were awarded with the German Lifestyle Award 2013. The "recycable jeans" was part of the last Arnhem Mode Biennale "Fetishism in Fashion" 2013 exhibition.

One-year partnership with shoe brand KangaROOS, a special and very unique range of hybrid sneakers were exclusively created for the B.A. collection.

B.A. of Arts collection presented at the AMD EXIT13_2 Graduate Défilé in Düsseldorf and honored as the best graduate collection this year.

Worked as an intern in assistant role at the HUGO Man Creative Management at Hugo Boss in Metzingen, Germany.

Currently attending the Folkwang University of Arts (Essen, Germany) in a speical interdisciplinary M.A. Graduate Program called "Heterotopia" to combine different aspects of several design subjects. Working on a socio-cultural publication, half academic half artistic, to analyze the current situation of global menswear and develop new future-orientated concepts regarding fashion and culture.

Résumé:

Generally, most of the projects and collections so far have been biographically-inspired. Voyages, music, modern art, photography and films, furniture designs, performance and theatre or just as youth cultures, sports and politics are playing a substantial role for all ideas concerning a modern and innovative approach on traditional Mens- and Streetwear.

The aim is to create a contemporary wardrobe that is able to reflect a man's psyche and mood as well as his individuality and freedom in style.

Latest Collection

A/W 2014-15 - "Basquiat captured by Sidibé"

Did you know that the 70's vibe also had its fellows in Africa's western parts like Mali? Photographer and Hasselblad Award winner Malick Sidibé captured his compatriots in the happy 70's and the 80's showing a people full of joy, power and the strong will to change by being progressive and expressing their freedom in style. So this actually happened also in Africa and it was interesting to see all these things happening with the same attitude (non-chalant but sincerly at the same time) as in the West - a time for change, also in Europe and the US. Artists always embody the zeitgeist and so Jean-Michel Basquiat did in America. Being one of the very first Afro-American modern artists he changed and enhanced the face of Pop Art and critically connected serious social issues with an unique brushstroke of colorful boyish easiness and non-chalance.

Both men had an enormous impact not only in the fields of art but in society and even politics. So, what if they would have meet each other? In New York, the world's centre of art? In Bamako, Mali's capital?
This homage collection puts both spirits together by dressing men in Intarisa knits with Basquiat motifs, oversized long or boxy silhouettes, leather and shearling jackets, Fez hats, slim-fit and extremely wide-legged trousers, pinstripe suits, turtle-necks, printed suitcases, pointy collar shirts, 5-panel caps and camel coats in playful Basquiat and typical 70's colors juxtaposed with African flower prints, knits, Kente or jacquards.

To avoid being retro instead of romantically modern by depicting the "Afro-American Soul" the pieces are equipped with silver shiny metal applications, buttons, clippings, brooches or zippers changing the conservative look of today's mens- and formalwear. A tribute to the the only constant in life - change.

Previous collections

S/S 2014 B.A. Collection - "We Are Africa" - Show Lookbook

S/S 2014 B.A. Footwear Collection - "We Are Africa" x KangaROOS

S/S 2014 B.A. Collection - "We Are Africa"

A/W 2012-13 - "Fukushima no Ryoshi"
S/S 2012 - "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

Latest Collection

A/W 2014-15 - "Basquiat captured by Sidibé"

Previous collections

S/S 2014 B.A. Collection - "We Are Africa" - Show Lookbook

S/S 2014 B.A. Footwear Collection - "We Are Africa" x KangaROOS

S/S 2014 B.A. Collection - "We Are Africa"

A/W 2012-13 - "Fukushima no Ryoshi"

S/S 2012 - "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

Films