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AMD graduate Kerstin Weng announced as new Head of Editorial Content at Vogue Germany

Congratulations Kerstin Weng! The AMD graduate, currently Editor-in-Chief of Burda Instyle, is moving to Condé Nast Verlag in the coming months and will succeed interim head Stephanie Neureuter. As Head of Editorial Content, her official title, Weng will be responsible for editorial content, strategy as well as vision of German Vogue. She will...

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Gerry Weber and AMD Akademie students develop new products from surplus

Remnants, leftover production and returns are a problem for many brands and retailers in the fashion industry. Gerry Weber International AG has teamed up with Akademie Mode & Design (AMD) students to tackle this problem. Under the motto "Destroy was yesterday, today we recycle", 41 students from the Master's programmes "Fashion and Product...

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Uniqlo and AMD Akademie Mode & Design create joint upcycling collection

Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo and 35 fashion design and fashion students from the German school AMD Akademie Mode & Design have collaborated to create a joint upcycled collection entitled The New Nomad. The materials used to create the upcycled collection include defective rain jackets and discarded clothing. As well, the textiles were collected...

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AMD and Polimoda offer first joint summer school

The German AMD Akademie Mode & Design and the Italian fashion institute Polimoda offer for the first time a joint, four-week-long summer school called “Fashion Future”. Its aim, as the two fashion institutions announced in a press release yesterday, is to “develop perspectives of the future fashion panorama”. The first part of the summer school...

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Fashion Design graduate Katharina Rapp presents the AMD Akademie Mode & Design at this year's London Graduate Fashion Week

As part of the International Catwalk Show, more than 40 high-caliber international colleges will present their graduate collections at this year's London Graduate Fashion Week (LGFW). The AMD Akademie Mode & Design is also represented on the important platform with the 100% sustainable, experimental collection by Katharina Rapp on 5 June 2019....