Melitta Baumeister, Fashion Designer

Melitta Baumeister is a German fashion designer based in New York City. With a thorough foundation in tailoring she moved on earning a MFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design before launching her own brand.
In 2014, Melitta’s debut collection was shown during New York Fashion Week. This led to her being prominently featured in among others Vogue Magazine, the New York Times, i.D., Numeró, Self Service, giving her career a major boost and allowing her to show her work at prestigious events in both London and Paris.
Interested in the sculptural quality of clothing, Melitta Baumeister exaggerates volumes and reshapes silhouettes, often using uncommon materials and experimental techniques. This distinct approach was met with much critical acclaim 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 areas of furniture, lighting and accessories and has been awarded the Apolline Prize of the Grassi Messe Leipzig and the Red Dot Award, among others.

Romin Heide’s long-standing involvement in the Association of German Industrial Designers – VDID e.V. included co-founding the VDIDlab, the association’s young designers’ organisation.

Since 2015, he has also held teaching positions at various universities – including Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle – and most recently a substitute professorship at Angewandte Kunst Schneeberg.

Jiro Kamata, Jewelery Artist

Jiro Kamata, born in Japan in 1978, lives and works in Munich. He studied at the Yamanashi Institute of Gemology and Jewelry Art in Kofu, Japan and at Pforzheim University. He then studied with Otto Künzli at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His works have been exhibited internationally and are 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 or the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK.