• Nationality
  German
• Main
  KANTSTRASSE 139, 10623
  Berlin
• Website
  www.frank-leder.com

SUMMARY
German designer Frank Leder has led a more inconspicuous practice since his graduation from Central Saint Martins in London and returning to his homeland of Germany. Possibly subversive in the conventional fashion system, he adheres to his own working process whereby a contextual framework of workwear, the working class, and the German landscape since World War II have envisaged a complete menswear range. He aims not be nostalgic or making clothes with an anachronistic appearance, rather working buttons, deadstock fabrics and wool sources from the Baltic is a special chemistry kept constant therefore remaining contemporary. Previously interjecting humor and wit, critically, we are able to coherently understand his work as one filled with a person’s life and context – of which he has used German painters and artists as part of his design language.

HIGHLIGHTS
Studied Fashion at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London

Worked as art-director and stylist for i-D Magazine, Sleazenation and Qvest

Returns to Germany to formally establish studio and main base for production; 2002

Exhibited at Germany’s Goethe Institute in Japan; 2005

Published by German title Mono.Kultur for second issue; 2005