Melitta Baumeister, fashion designer

Melitta Baumeister is a German fashion designer based in New York City. After a thorough education in tailoring, she completed an MFA in Fashion Design at Parsons School of Design before starting her own brand.
In 2014, Melitta's debut collection was shown at New York Fashion Week. This led to her being featured in Vogue Magazine, The New York Times, i.D., Numeró and Self Service, among others, giving her career a major boost and allowing her to show her work at prestigious events in London and Paris.
Melitta Baumeister is interested in the sculptural quality of clothing. She exaggerates volumes and reshapes silhouettes, often using unusual materials and experimental techniques. This particular approach has been praised by international boutiques and museums alike.

Romin Heide, Product Designer

Romin Heide studied product design at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences with guest semesters at the Berlin Weißensee School of Art and the ENSCI|Les Aterliers in Paris. Together with Hanna Litwin, he has been running the design studio BÜRO FAMOS in Berlin since 2012. The studio's work includes projects with a wide variety of materials in the fields of furniture, lighting and accessories and has been honoured with the Apolline Prize of the Grassi Messe Leipzig and the Red Dot Award, among others.

Romin Heide's many years of involvement in the Association of German Industrial Designers - VDID e.V. included helping to set up VDIDlab, the association's young talent organisation.

Since 2015, he has also held teaching positions at various universities - including Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle - and most recently a deputy professorship at Angewandte Kunst Schneeberg.

Jiro Kamata, jewellery designer

Jiro Kamata, born in Japan in 1978, lives and works in Munich. He studied at the Yamanashi Institute of Gemology and Jewellery Art in Kofu, Japan and at Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences. He then studied under Otto Künzli at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in several private and public collections, such as the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, USA and the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK.