Annette Meyer was born in Denmark in 1966, educated as a Fashion
designer at the Art Academy in Utrecht in Holland and at the
Royal Collage of Art in Antwerp in Belgium.
In 1992 she started working for the Danish performance theatre
Hotel Pro Forma, designing costumes for eight larger performances,
among them 'Enigma of the late afternoon at Carlsberg Glyptoteket,
'OPERAtion Orfeo' shown at The Opera House in Sidney and at
BAM in New York as well the performance 'Monkey Business Class',
a collaboration with the Japanese performance group Dumb Type
and the Architect duo Diller and Scofidio.
In 1995 she moved back to Denmark and had her first solo exhibition
at the Museum for art and Crafts where she started making clothing
objects out of disposable wrapping materials.
In 1997 Annette Meyer became Head of the Fashion Department
at Designskolen Kolding and had her first international solo
exhibition in New York in 1998, showing the BODYWRAPPinc.NY
collection at StoreFront for Art and Architecture. In 2001 the
BODYWRAPPInc. collection continued on show to the design gallery
of Kunsthal Rotterdam in Holland, to Kyoto Art Center in Kyoto
as well to Spiral Wacoal Art Center in Tokyo, Japan.
Now Annette Meyer is working as a freelance designer with a
wide range of activities in the field of design, product development,
art managing and teaching, creating innovative concepts and
unique ideas.
She is currently
in the process of locating business partners to develop these
sophisticated and playful works of art into ready-to-wear
collections for international distribution. |
"I
want to create pleasant, sensuous experiences through innovative
products and unique ideas. It's the beauty and aesthetic
qualities of a product and experience that matters to me".
Annette Meyer
ICON DRESSED
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